According to the Payment of Wages Act, following deductions can be made from a worker's wages.
• Fines;
• Deductions for absence from duty; Law considers it a breach of contract when ten or more persons, through concerted action, absent themselves from office without due notice and reasonable cause. The law entitles the employer to make deductions up to eight days of wages when employees take such an action. However, the law exempts women and workers (under the age of 15 years) from such wage deduction for contract breaches.
• Deductions for damages to or loss of goods expressly entrusted to the employed person for custody, or for loss of money for which he is required to account, where such damage or loss is directly attributable to his neglect or default;
• Deductions for house accommodation supplied by the employer
• Deductions for such amenities and services supplied by the employer as the Provincial Government may by general or special order authorize;
• Deductions for recovery of advances or for adjustment of overpayment of wages;
• Deductions of income tax payable by the employed person;
• Deductions required to be made by order of a Court or other authority competent to make such order;
• Deductions for subscriptions to, and for repayment of advances from, any approved Provident Fund;
• Deductions for payment to co-operative societies approved by the Provincial Government or to a scheme of insurance maintained by the Pakistan Post Office;
• Deductions made with the written authorization of the employed person, in furtherance of any war saving scheme approved by the Provincial Government.