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Employment Act 2008

Notices of underpayment: arrears

52.New section 19 provides that where an officer is of the opinion that an employer has not paid a worker the national minimum wage, or has not fully repaid any arrears which the worker is entitled to under section 17, the officer may serve a notice of underpayment requiring the employer to pay arrears to the worker or workers named in the notice (subsections (1) and (2)). The notice may require employers to pay arrears relating to periods occurring before the coming into force of new section 19, but arrears relating to periods more than six years before the date of service of the notice may not be included in the notice (subsections (6) and (7)).

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