KUCHING: Eight employers were found to have violated various provisions under state Labour Ordinance in an operation carried out by the state Labour Department here. The offences ranged from failure to keep the personal details of employees and to keep the particulars on the terms and conditions of employment (six cases respectively), to keep proper register on the employees’ wages and allowances (five cases).
Others were failure to provide details on wages and allowances to the employees (three cases), to notify the department on the establishment or the starting of operations of new companies and the establishments of the like which carry on business as required under section 60A of the Ordinance (three cases), and requiring the employees to work more than 8 hours in one day (two cases).
There were also offences on failure of the employers to furnish details requiring employees to work more than 48 hours in one week (two cases), making payment of wages to employees through bank without written consent from them (two cases), make deduction from the wages of employees other than deductions authorised by Section 114 (2 cases), failure to pay the employees wages for work on public holidays (one case), failure to give a period of leisure of not less than 30 minutes duration after five consecutive hours (one case), failure to pay for over time works done (one case), failure to display notice on rest day (one case) and failure to grant annual leave to employee (one case).
The department in a press statement yesterday said notice of violation had been issued to the employers concerned to take corrective action for the above violations. The operation was initiated in collaboration with the Social Security Organisation (Socso) and the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). It focused on compliance among the employers on Minimum Wages Order (Amendment) 2018 and provisions under Labour Ordinance of Sarawak. The integrated operation carried out by the three agencies was launched in June 2019.
It is ongoing until end of this month and will focus on suspected recalcitrant employers. The operation was to ensure compliance on the minimum wages order and other relevant labour laws in order to safeguard the rights of the employees as stipulated under the laws.
