Sec. 31-69. Penalty.
Sec. 31-69. Penalty. (a) Any employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of any
corporation, who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee
because such employee has served or is about to serve on a wage board or has testified
or is about to testify before any wage board or in any other investigation or proceeding
under or related to this part, or because such employer believes that such employee may
serve on any wage board or may testify before any wage board or in any investigation
or proceeding under this part, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than four hundred dollars.
(b) Any employer or the officer or agent of any corporation who pays or agrees to
pay to any employee less than the rates applicable to such employee under the provisions
of this part or a minimum fair wage order shall be: (1) Fined not less than four thousand
nor more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years or both for
each offense if the total amount of all unpaid wages owed to an employee is more than
two thousand dollars; (2) fined not less than two thousand nor more than four thousand
dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both for each offense if the total amount
of all unpaid wages owed to an employee is more than one thousand dollars but not
more than two thousand dollars; (3) fined not less than one thousand nor more than two
thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both for each offense if the
total amount of all unpaid wages owed to an employee is more than five hundred but
not more than one thousand dollars; or (4) fined not less than four hundred nor more
than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three months or both for each
offense if the total amount of all unpaid wages owed to an employee is five hundred
dollars or less.
(c) Any employer, his officer or agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation,
firm or partnership, who fails to keep the records required under this part or by regulation
made in accordance with this part or to furnish such records to the commissioner or any
authorized representative of the commissioner, upon request, or who refuses to admit
the commissioner or his authorized representative to his place of employment or who
hinders or delays the commissioner or his authorized representative in the performance
of his duties in the enforcement of this part shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars, and each day of such failure to keep the records required
under this part or to furnish the same to the commissioner or any authorized representative of the commissioner shall constitute a separate offense, and each day of refusal to
admit or of hindering or delaying the commissioner or his authorized representative
shall constitute a separate offense.
(d) Nothing in this part shall be deemed to interfere with, impede or in any way
diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through
representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or conditions of work
in excess of the applicable minimum under this part.
(1949 Rev., S. 3795; 1951, S. 2033d; 1959, P.A. 683, S. 6; P.A. 93-392, S. 3; P.A. 97-263, S. 18.)
History: 1959 act added failure to keep records required by regulation to penalty provision; P.A. 93-392 amended
Subsec. (b) to increase the maximum fine and prison term for nonpayment of minimum or overtime wages from $200 and
90 days to $5,000 and five years, and to allow for the imposition of varying fines and prison terms based on the amount
of wages owed by an employer; P.A. 97-263 doubled the amount of all fines in Subsecs. (a), (b) and (c).
Failure to keep records not material when court finds number of hours worked in action between employer and employee.
140 C. 73. Cited. 223 C. 573.
Cited. 10 CS 171.