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23-329. Violations; classification

A. An employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of a corporation, who knowingly discharges, or in any other manner discriminates against an employee, because the employee has served, or is about to serve, on a wage board, or has testified, or is about to testify before a wage board, or in any other investigation or proceeding under or related to this article, or because the employer believes that the employee may serve on a wage board, or may testify before a wage board or in an investigation or proceeding under this article, or who deducts any part of any wages or compensation, other than as prescribed by law, when due a minor, is guilty of a petty offense.

B. An employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of a corporation, who knowingly pays or agrees to pay to a minor employee less than the wage rates applicable to the minor under a mandatory minimum fair wage order is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

C. An employer or his agent, or the officer or agent of a corporation, who fails to keep the records required by this article or to furnish the records to the commission or an authorized representative of the commission upon request is guilty of a petty offense.