Section 3
SEC. 3. Sections 15 (a) and 16 (b) of the Minimum Wage Law are hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 15. Penalties and Recovery of Wage Due Under This Act.-"(a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules and regulations issued thereunder shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos, or upon second conviction, to imprisonment of not less than six months nor more than one year, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court. If any alien is convicted of violating this Act or the rules and regulations issued thereunder, he shall be deported without further proceedings after service of his sentence." "SEC. 16(b). The Court of Industrial Relations shall have jurisdiction over claims for payment of minimum wages where there still exist between the parties an employer-employee relationship, or where the claimant seeks reinstatement. In the absence of any of these circumstances, such claim shall come under the jurisdiction of the regular courts. "Any provision of law or rules of court to the contrary notwithstanding, oral evidence shall be admissible to rebut, impugn, or otherwise modify the contents of payrolls, vouchers, pay slips, time records, and other documents containing the signature of an employee or laborer in such cases, the payrolls, vouchers, pay slips, time records, and other similar documents being merely prima facie evidence of their contents. "The fixing of minimum wages on an industry-wide basis above those fixed by this Act shall be within the jurisdiction of the wage commission, but that in particular firms or enterprises shall be within the jurisdiction of the Court of Industrial Relations."