Implement minimum wage or face court action: Ismail

MARAN: Employers who failed to implement the minimum wage despite repeated warnings, risk a five-year jail sentence, a RM20000 fine, or both.
Deputy Minister of Human Resources Datuk Ismail Abd Muttalib said an employer could be fined RM10,000 for the first offence and RM1,000 daily for the second offence for each employee.
"Those who are stubborn and refused to implement minimum wage despite warnings and action will be fined RM20,000 or five years jail or both," he told reporters after presenting multi-purpose cards to more than 100 retirees from the Community Development Department (Kemas) here, today.
Ismail said, although minimum wage was to be implemented last year, it was postponed several times as employers were still not ready to implement it.
He regretted that many employers took the matter lightly, although they were given enough time to implement minimum wage. – Bernama