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Following the publication of Road Haulage Wages Regulation RH(82), a reader asks what are the employers' relative responsibilities as to the keeping of records and posting of notices.
The Wages Council Act 1959, among other things, provides that every employer must keep such records as are necessary to show whether the provisions of the Act are being complied with as respects persons in his employment. These records must be retained for three years.
Such notices as may be required must be posted by the employer for the purpose of informing workers of any wages regulation proposals or wages regulation orders affecting them. Failure to comply with any of these requirements renders the employer liable to a fine not exceeding £20 for each offence.
There are further penalties for furnishing false information or obstructing inspectors. If any person makes, or causes to be made. or knowingly allows to be made, any entry in a record required by the Act to be kept by employers which he knows to be false or produces any wages sheet which he knows to be false, he is liable on summary conviction to a tine not exceeding £100 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment. Any person obstructing an officer acting for the purposes of, the Act is liable to a fine not exceeding £20.
Copies of the Wages Council Act 1959 containing these requirements are obtainable from HM Stationer ■ Office, price 2s. 3d. including postage.