Every person who makes default in the full payment of any wages payable by that person under this Act and every person who fails to otherwise comply with the requirements of this Act shall be liable to a penalty recoverable by a Labour Inspector in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Contracts Act 1991.

All proceedings under this Act shall be commenced in the Employment Tribunal.”

Without affecting any other remedies for the recovery of wages or other money payable by an employer to any worker whose wages are prescribed under this Act, where there has been any default in payment of any such wages or other money or where any payment of any such wages or other money has been made at a rate lower than that prescribed under this Act or otherwise legally payable to the worker, the whole or any part, as the case may require, of any such wages or other money may be recovered by the worker or by a Labour Inspector to the use of the worker by action commenced in the Employment Tribunal in the same manner as an action under section 48 of the Employment Contracts Act 1991, notwithstanding the acceptance by the worker of any payment at a lower rate or any express or implied agreement to the contrary, and subsection (2) of that section shall apply accordingly.”

Section 55 of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 shall apply to non-observance or non-compliance with any provision of, or requirement given under, this Act as if it was a provision of, or requirement given under, Parts II to IV of the Employment Contracts Act 1991, and proceedings under that Act may be commenced by any worker or employer prejudicially affected by the non-observance or non-compliance.”

Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, every employment contract under the Employment Contracts Act 1991 shall fix at not more than 40 the maximum number of hours (exclusive of overtime) to be worked in any week by any worker bound by that employment contract.

The maximum number of hours (exclusive of overtime) fixed by an employment contract to be worked by any worker in any week may be fixed at a number greater than 40 if the parties to the contract agree.

Where the maximum number of hours (exclusive of overtime) fixed by an employment contract to be worked by any worker in any week is not more than 40, the parties to the contract shall endeavour to fix the daily working hours so that those hours are worked on not more than 5 days of the week.

Nothing in this section shall apply in respect of any individual employment contract within the meaning of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 which is in force immediately before the commencement of this section.”