for sixty days beyond the date of the agreement, award or other
act making wages payable, or where shortages in the wage
payments made exceed five percent (5%) of the gross wages
payable on any two regularly scheduled paydays in the same
calendar quarter, and no good faith contest or dispute of any
wage claim including the good faith assertion of a right of set-
off or counter-claim exists accounting for such non-payment, the
employe shall be entitled to claim, in addition, as liquidated
damages an amount equal to [twenty-five percent (25%) of the
total amount of wages due, or five hundred dollars ($500),
whichever is greater.] twice the underpaid wages due or one
thousand dollars ($1,000), whichever is greater. Each week in
which an employe is paid less than the applicable wage under
this act shall constitute a separate violation that shall be
subject to a separate penalty.
Section 11.1. Criminal Penalties.--(a) The secretary or any
employe, group of employes, labor organization or party to whom
any type of wages is payable may institute prosecutions under
this act.
(b) In addition to any other penalty or punishment otherwise
prescribed by law, any employer who violates any provisions of
this act [shall be guilty of a summary offense and, upon
conviction thereof,] shall be punished by a fine of not [more]
less than three hundred dollars ($300) nor more than one
thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment up to 90 days, or
by both[, for each offense]. Each day of the failure to comply
with this act, and each employe against whom the employer or
officer or agent of any corporation violated any other provision
of this act, shall constitute a separate offense that shall be
subject to a separate penalty. A first offense under this
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