- Labor deductions include garnishments and income tax deductions.calculator image by Adam Borkowski from Fotolia.com
Labor deductions can be derived from income taxes, legal garnishments or court-ordered deductions, or for health insurance. In Virginia, the labor laws regarding deductions revolve around the employers deducting wages and child support payments. - money image by Horticulture from Fotolia.com
The Virginia Code, Chapter 40, Sections 1-29 discusses the time and medium of payment, withholding wages, and written statements of earnings. Under this law it is illegal for any employer to withhold or deduct an employee's wages or salary without a signed statement from the employee, granting explicit permission to do so. Also, no employer can compel an employee to give up a portion or all of his earnings by signing such a statement - The Virginia Code, Chapter 20, Section 79.3, addresses the information required in an income deduction order and gives the criteria necessary for drafting a deduction of income order that has been issued by a Virginia court. The information required for this garnishment is the employee's name, Social Security number and address. This mandate takes priority over all income deductions and would last until the employment term ends or until the court reverses the order. A statement of maximum deduction has to be followed in the labor deduction order.
- Virginia Code, Chapter 20, Section 79.1, regarding enforcement of support orders, income deduction, and penalties for wrongful discharge, entitles the court to reduce an employee's wages due to neglect in child support payments. The court has to notify the parent of the sum to be subtracted, the right to protest the income deduction, the time periods for deduction, the procedure to contest the order for child support payment, the ground rules for a court hearing if there is a contest against the garnishment order, and the sum of outstanding child support.
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