Can a employer take outadditional deductions on a employee’s pay because he’s upset?
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Can a employer take outadditional deductions on a employee’s pay because he’s upset?
My husband is a truck driver. He drives for a gentleman and the agreement was after fuel deductions they split the pay 50/50. Well after 3 1/2 weeks my husband decided to find another job. So, on he last 2 paychecks the owner of the truck deducted half of his truck insurance out of my husband’s pay. Can he do that?
Asked on July 12, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Going forward, if there is a "gentleman's agreement"--i.e. an oral or verbal agreement--the truck's owner could look to change the agreement; he could propose, for example, that you husband pay half the insurance, and if your husband would not accept those terms, then the other gentleman could having your husband drive the truck. But that is only, as stated, "going forward"--in other words, *first* there must be a discussion of the agreement or terms before anything changes. If you husband did work--drove--under the terms of the old agreement, before a new one was proposed, then he has to be paid per the terms of that old agreement; the other party (the truck owner) cannot unilaterally change what he pays your husband after your husband did the work.
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