Pay deductions law
The employer may deduct the following from an employee's wage: -
- Tax and National Insurance Contributions
- Salary deductions ordered by the court
- Sums previously agreed with the employee
- Repayment of Student Loans
If an employer makes payroll deductions from an employee's wage in one of the following ways the employee will be able to make a claim to the Tribunal. He/she must submit the claim within 3 months minus one day of the deduction:
- The payment is late
- The employer does not make a payment
- The employer makes irregular payments
- The employer does not make a payment of the agreed sum
- The employer fails to pay holiday pay or statutory sick pay etc
- The employer has not included Working Tax Credit.
- The employer fails to pay an agreed bonus or commission
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