It is the right of an employee to receive salary in consideration of the work done, this right cannot be infringed by the Employer in any way without Employee’s consent (𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝟔𝟔 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐍° 𝟔𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚). The employer can not in any way undertake salary deductions from an employee without his or her consent. This implies that an employee is supposed to be paid his or her whole salary as stipulated or reflected in his or her employment contract except for deductions mandated for by the laws, consent of the employee or competent authority (𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝟕𝟑 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐍° 𝟔𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚).

It is of insight to note that for any punishment to be subjected to the employee, salary deduction is not a better move or option for the employers. Take for instance, if an employee who works in a hotel breaks hotel glasses during his or her day to day work, salary deduction on such employee’s salary is not a better solution except under circumstances where there is mutual agreement between the employee and employer and any deduction made cannot go beyond half of the employee’s salary (𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝟕𝟑 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐍° 𝟔𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚).

Under circumstance where the employer illegally deducts the Employee’s salary, the employee is entitled to interests on his or her deducted salary (𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝟕𝟒 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐍° 𝟔𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚). In an advisory note, it is advised that, employers need not to adopt salary deduction as a disciplinary method of punishing the employee for any mistake done at work.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝐾 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒(𝑠) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠.