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Provision of shops etc. by employers for sale of commodities to employees. 20. An employer may establish shops, stores or places for the sale of commodities to his employees, but no employer shall bind any employee by contract, agreement or other obligation, written or oral, express or implied, to make use of any such shop, store or place for the purchase of commodities.

PART IV.
Deductions from Wages.

Restriction on deductions from wages. 21. (1) No deductions shall be made by an employer from the wages of his employee or from any other sum due to the employee otherwise than in accordance with this Ordinance.

(2) The following deductions may be made by an employer from the wages of his employee—

(a) deductions for absence from work:

Provided that, in the case of a contract of employment under which wages are calculated on a basis of time, no such deduction shall exceed a sum proportionate to the period of time during which the employee was absent from work;

(b) deductions for damage to or loss of goods, equipment or property belonging to or in the possession or control of the employer or expressly entrusted to an employee for custody, or for loss of money for which an employee is required to account, where such damage or loss is directly attributable to his neglect or default:

Provided that—

(i) the total amount recoverable by deduction in any one case shall not exceed the equivalent in value of the damage or loss suffered by the employer or three hundred dollars, whichever is the less; and

(ii) the total of such deductions in any one wage period shall not exceed one quarter of the wages payable to the employee in respect of that wage period;

(c) deductions in respect of meals supplied by the employer at the request of the employee not exceeding the cost to the employer of such meals including expenses of production and service;

(d) deduction for accommodation provided by the employer for the employee or his family made in respect of the period such accommodation has been in the occupation of the employee or his family;