Basically, the rationale, the objective here is to improve compliance and to encourage employers who owe wages to their employees to pay up as early as possible.
We are aware that there have been circumstances where certain employers, perhaps more unscrupulous, would actually try to delay the process and therefore wait for a payment order to be issued and then ask for their full review, appeal, etc., which can take quite a bit of time. The objective here is to create an incentive so that, if employers actually do owe wages, they pay them up as soon as possible after the investigation by the inspector, before a payment order has to be issued.
That said, we do recognize that there may be reasons why employers in some cases disagree with the inspector's assessment, and therefore if they wish to have the payment order reviewed and appealed, and if they successfully appeal it so that it is rescinded, no administrative fees will be owed by the employer.