My Employer is trying to make me pay for damages to a customers fence gate
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My Employer is trying to make me pay for damages to a customers fence gate
I work for a landscape company and while on a customers property I backed into a
fence gate and now my boss said I have to pay for the gate. He gave me a
christmas bonus and told me to go cash it and bring him back the money to pay for
the gate. Do I have to pay for this, is this legal.
Asked on December 28, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
GA does not have any laws that identify what voluntary deductions can be made from an employee's paycheck. Furhter, state law does not specifically require that a worker needs to provide written consent prior to any deduction being made. However, federal law prohibits an employer from making deductions to the degree that it causes the employee to receive less than 30 times federal minimum wage for any week of the period for which the deduction was made. That having been said, since the money is coming from a bonus, this latter requirement doesn't apply. Bottom line, your employer's action is legal (absent any union agreement or employment contract to the contrary).
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