BANGKOK, 15 August 2016 (NNT) - The Department of Labor Protection and Welfare scrambles to explain the Labor Protection Act to employers in order to prevent them from violating it.

Labor Protection and Welfare Department Director General Phannee Sriyutthasak said that no employer can make any deductions from wages, overtime pay, holiday pay and holiday overtime pay except the deductions made for: (1) payment of income tax in an amount which is to be paid by an employee or other payments provided by law; (2) payment of labor union dues according to the regulations of a labor union; (3) payment of debts owed to the savings cooperatives or other cooperatives of the same description, or of debts relating to benefits of the employee solely, with the prior consent of the employee; (4) payment as a deposit under Section 10, or as compensation to the employer for damage caused by the employee either willfully or with gross negligence, with the prior consent of the employee; or (5) payment as contributions under an agreement relating to a provident fund.

The deductions under (2), (3), (4), and (5) in each case will not be made in excess of ten percent and in aggregate will not exceed one-fifths of the money to which the employee is entitled at the time of payment under Section 70, except with the prior consent of the employee, he added.

The entrepreneurs are suggested to follow the laws and those found to have violated the laws will be subject to a maximum of six months in prison or to a maximum of 100,000 baht in fine or both.

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