Employment Act 1955 · Updated to 1 Aug 2023 · Part XVI · Procedure
87. Power of court imposing fine
Feedback & supportWhen under this Act any court imposes a fine or enforces the payment of any sum secured by bond, the court may, if it thinks fit, direct that the whole or any part of such fine or sum when recovered be paid to the party complaining.
Court order for payments due to employee 87a. (1) Where an employer has been convicted of an offence relating to the payment of wages or any other payments payable to an employee under this Act, the court before which he is convicted may order the employer to pay any payment due to the employee in relation to that offence.
employee
“employee” means any person or class of persons— (a) included in any category in the First Schedule to the extent specified therein; or (b) in respect of whom the Minister makes an order under subsection (3) or section 2a;
Where an employer fails to comply with an order made under subsection (1), the court shall, on the application of the employee, issue a warrant to levy the employer’s property for any payments due under that subsection in the following manner:
employer
“employer” means any person who has entered into a contract of service to employ any other person as an employee and includes the agent, manager or factor of such first mentioned person, and the word “employ”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly;
by way of distress and sale of employer’s property in accordance with the same procedure of execution under the Rules of Court 2012 [P.U. (A) 205/2012] and this execution shall apply mutatis mutandis notwithstanding the amount in the order; or
in the same manner as a fine as provided under section 283 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593].