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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="11-306" title_number="11" title_name="Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Economic Stabilization Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee, determines that an employer has violated § 11–305 of this subtitle, the Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>shall issue an order compelling compliance; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may, in the Secretary’s, or the Secretary’s designee’s, discretion, assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per day for each day that an employer violated § 11–305 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In determining the amount of the penalty, if assessed, the Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee, shall consider:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the gravity of the violation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the size of the employer’s business;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the employer’s good faith; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the employer’s history of violations under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The assessment of a penalty under subsection (a)(2) of this section shall be subject to the notice and hearing requirements of Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
