Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Payment of Salary
30. Deductions for accommodation, amenity and service
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Any deduction under section 27(1)(d) or (e) must not exceed an amount equivalent to the value of the house accommodation, amenity or service supplied, and the total amount of all deductions under section 27(1)(d) and (e) made from an employee’s salary by his or her employer in any one salary period must not in any case exceed one‑quarter (or such other proportion prescribed in substitution by the Minister) of the salary payable to the employee in respect of that period.
employee
“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer and includes a workman, and any officer or employee of the Government included in a category, class or description of such officers or employees declared by the President to be employees for the purposes of this Act or any provision thereof, but does not include any of the following:(a)any seafarer;(b)any domestic worker;(c) (d)any person belonging to any other class of persons whom the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare not to be employees for the purposes of this Act;
In the case of a deduction under section 27(1)(e), the deduction is subject to such conditions as the Commissioner may impose.