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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-503" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Wage Payment and Collection">
  <text>An employer may not make a deduction from the wage of an employee unless the deduction is:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>authorized expressly in writing by the employee;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>allowed by the Commissioner because the employee has received full consideration for the deduction; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>otherwise made in accordance with any law or any rule or regulation issued by a governmental unit.</text>
  </level>
</section>
