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by balozi 862 days ago
This should be a civil issue in my humble opinion. Make it possible for employees to seek and obtain civil damages against infringing employers. Jail time unnecessarily drags taxpayers into the equation.
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Criminal penalties were included due to a clerical error that copypasta'd clauses from elsewhere.

The opposition refused to allow an ammendment that removed criminal penalties.

Their leader delibrately played politics and knowingly chose to keep an obvious and acknowledged mistake in play for the next election cycle rather than fix it here and now.