Under the District of Columbia law, an employer may deduct from an employee's wages only charges required by law, permitted by law, or authorized by the employee in accordance with state law. In addition to the District of Columbia rules, employers must comply with the federal rules related to deductions from pay. There is additional information.
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Employers may, with the employee's written authorization, make deductions from an employee's pay for union dues (DC Code Sec. 1-617.07).
At the time of payment, employers must give each employee an itemized statement showing the date of the payment, gross wages, net wages, deductions from and additions to wages, and hours worked (DC Code Sec. 32-1008; DC Wage-Hour Rules Ch. 9 Sec. 911.2).