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Employment
[1988 Ed.
(h) deductions which are required or authorized under any enactment to be made from the wages of an employee;
(i) other deductions made at the request in writing of the employee and with the approval of the Commissioner, which may be signified in respect of any particular case in writing or in general by notice in the Gazette.
(3) Except with the approval in writing of the Commissioner, the total of all deductions, excluding deductions in respect of absence from work, made under this section from the wages of an employee in any one wage period shall not exceed one half of the wages payable to the employee in respect of the wage period.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing an employer from paying to an employee at any time before the due date the amount of wages and other remuneration proportionate to work done and adjusting any amount so paid against the total amount payable at the end of the wage period.
PART VII
SICKNESS ALLOWANCE
Sickness allowance
33. (1) An employee who has been employed by his employer under a continuous contract for a period of 1 month or more immediately preceding a sickness day shall be paid by his employer sickness allowance in accordance with this section and section 35. (Amended, 1 of 1977, s. 2 and 48 of 1984, s. 14)
(2) Subject to subsection (2A), an entitlement to sickness allowance shall accrue at the rate of
(a) 2 paid sickness days for each completed month of the employee's employment under the continuous contract with his employer during the first 12 months of such employment; and
(b) 4 paid sickness days for each such month thereafter,
and may be accumulated from time to time up to a maximum of 120 paid sickness days. (Replaced, 57 of 1983, s. 5)
(2A) In the case of an employee who has been employed by his employer under a continuous contract for a period of 1 month or more immediately preceding the commencement* of the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 1983 (57 of 1983), the employee's entitlement to sickness allowance shall, with effect from and without prejudice to the entitlement to sickness allowance accrued at such commencement, accrue at the rate prescribed by subsection (2) as amended by that Ordinance, and his employment for part of a month (if any) at such commencement shall be taken into account in calculating his entitlement to sickness allowance under and at the rate prescribed by that subsection. (Added, 57 of 1983, s. 5)
*1.11.1983
L.N. 349/83.