Section 72, The Industrial Relations and Trade Union Act, 2024

(1) A person bound by an award who willfully causes abreach of or fails to observe a condition of the award commits an offence and is liable on conviction, in the case of - (a) a trade union or employers' organisation , to a fine not less than 12 months of the national minimum wage; (b) an employer, to a fine not less than 12 months of the national minimum wage; (c) an employee to a fine not less than 12 months (2) Where in a proceeding against an employer, it appears to the Industrial Court that an employee employed by that employer has not been paid the amount to which he is entitled under the award, the Industrial Court may, in addition to imposing any other penalty, order that the employer shall pay to the employee such sum as is found by the Industrial Court to represent the difference between the amount which ought to have been paid to the employee if the award had been complied with and the amount actually paid to the employee and to an additional fine of 6 months national minimum wage for each day the offence is committed.