Section 20, The Industrial Relations and Trade Union Act, 2024

(1) Where an employer has been convicted for failing topay wages at less than the national minimum rate to an employee under section 18, the Court shall order the employer to pay, in addition to a fine, such sum as appears to the Court - (a) to be due to the employee on account of wages for the period during which the offence is alleged and found to have been committed, the wages being calculated on the basis of the minimum rate; or (b) represents the difference between the amount which ought to have been paid to the employee during that year and the amount actually paid by the employer. (2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall derogate from any right of the employee to recover wages by any other proceedings. (3) Where it appears to the Commissioner that a sum is due from an employer to an employee by reason of the fact that wages have been paid to that employee at less than the minimum rate applicable, and that it is not possible to recover the sum so appearing to be due, or some part of that sum, the Commissioner may, if it appears expedient to do so, take necessary proceedings before a Court for the recovery of the said sum from the employer.