$31.7 million in restitution for workers recovered by the Ministry of Labor in 2024

As the Ministry of Labor continues to intervene in workers’ complaints with their employers to achieve amicable solutions, some $31.7 million in restitution has been recovered from challenging companies, most notably security companies.

This was revealed by Labor Minister Joseph Hamilton during his ministry’s year-end press conference on Tuesday.

In fact, he noted that many of the concerns are related to employers’ failure to pay workers’ National Insurance System (NIS) deductions.

According to Minister Hamilton, thanks to his ministry’s intervention, from 2020 to date, more than $200 million in restitution has been recovered from defiant businesses.

Furthermore, the minister said that the majority of complaints received by the ministry are against security companies.

Meanwhile, in 2023, the ministry had recovered $69 million in restitution. Hamilton attributed this decline to the positive results of the ministry’s ongoing awareness-raising activities and campaigns.

In 2023, the ministry received more than 900 complaints from employees on various issues, such as severance pay, annual leave, illegal deductions from wages, overtime payment, non-payment of minimum wage and severance pay.

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