Section 15: Criminal Offences for Employers and Employees
15.Criminal offences
(1)Any person who records or causes to be recorded wrong, inaccurate or deficient information in an employee's records of service, whether retained by the employer or communicated to a labour officer, with an intention to defraud the employee or the employer or any public authority, nr who acts so as to conceal such fraudulent acts, commits an offence.
(2)It is an offence for an employer or employee to fail, without ustifiable cause to reply to a labour officer's written request for information within a period of fourteen days from the time that request was received by the employer or the employee as the case may be.
(3)Where a court imposes a fine under this section, the court may order part of or all of the fine to be paid to an employee or employer, as the case maybe, who has suffered loss as a consequence of the commission of the offence.
Plain English Summary
An employer or employee who deliberately records false information in an employee's service records commits a criminal offence. You also have the righ...
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