Health product company fined over non-compliance of minimum wage regulations

PETALING JAYA: A company was fined by the Petaling Jaya Magistrate Court on Monday for violating minimum wage regulations which require full-time employees to be paid a minimum of RM900 a month.

The Petaling Jaya-based company, which manufactures health products, was held to have acted in contravention of the Minimum Wage Order 2012 under the National Wages Consultative Council Act 2011 and is the first company to be successfully prosecuted under the new law.