{"id":657,"date":"2023-07-18T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T06:48:29","slug":"employment-law-can-employers-deduct-employees-wages-at-their-discretion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/employment-law\/employment-law-can-employers-deduct-employees-wages-at-their-discretion\/","title":{"rendered":"[Employment Law] Can employers deduct employees’ wages at their discretion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCan employers deduct employees’ wages at their discretion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Under what conditions can employers deduct employees’ wages?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Section 24 of the Employment Act 1955:<\/p>\n

1. Employers can deduct any overpayment of wages made by mistake during the preceding 3 months from the month in which the deductions are to be made;<\/p>\n

2. Deductions can be made for compensation payable by the employee due to resignation without proper notice;<\/p>\n

3. Deductions can be made for advances of wages previously made to the employee.<\/p>\n

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However, the total deductions cannot exceed 50% of the employee’s monthly income.<\/p>\n

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Can employers deduct my wages if they claim I have performed poorly?<\/span><\/p>\n

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No, the employer is likely to be in violation of the law.<\/p>\n

Section 91(c) of the Employment Act 1955:<\/p>\n

Only deductions authorized by law are permissible from an employee’s wages.<\/p>\n

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What penalties can employers face for arbitrarily deducting employees’ wages?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Section 99A of the Employment Act 1955:<\/p>\n

Employers can face a maximum fine of RM10,000.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can employers deduct employees’ wages at their discretion?   Under what conditions can employers deduct employees’ wages?   Section 24 of the Employment Act 1955: 1. Employers can deduct any overpayment of wages made by mistake during the preceding 3 months from the month in which the deductions are to be made; 2. Deductions can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[261,55,264,262,263,258,259,260,61,60,59,58,33,50,53,36,51,52,18,54,57,56,265,38,67,34,269,270,74,75,72,69,268,266,267],"gutentor_comment":1,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}