Section 32Part 4 — REMUNERATION AND HOURS OF WORK
Deductions
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An employer shall not make any deductions from the remuneration payable to an employee except in accordance with this section or any other law.
Whether or not he has the consent of the employee, an employer shall not make any deduction from the remuneration payable to an employee or receive any payment from an employee or allow any other person to receive payment from an employee on behalf of the employer for —
the cost of anything done or required to be done by the employer under this or any other law;
obtaining or retaining employment with the employer;
any purported fine imposed by the employer;
poor or negligent work, other than a shortfall in cash collected by an employee for the employer or in a cash float provided to the employee by the employer;
any injury to the materials or property of the employer, unless the injury is caused by the wilful misconduct of the employee; or
the actual or reasonable cost to the employer of any materials, tools and implements that the employer is required by this Law or any other employment-related Law to provide.
An employer may deduct from an employee's remuneration —
a deduction imposed by law;
money advanced by the employer, so long as the amount deducted accords with the agreement made between the employer and employee at the time of the advance;
any payment into any welfare, insurance, union dues or other similar fund which an employee has authorised to be deducted;
money the deduction of which an employee has expressly authorised in writing where such authorisation is not in conflict with any part of this or any other law.
Total deductions in any period shall not exceed one-third of the gross money remuneration of the employee for that pay period, but this does not apply to interest on, and repayments of, negotiated loans nor to the recovery of money advanced as contemplated in subsection (3) (b).
An employer who contravenes this section is guilty of an offence.
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deductions