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Originally Posted by Cynduck
How do I find out if it is a legal practice in Ohio?
I'm getting really tired of researching companies and then finding something major like this I guess the plus is that we find out and not just walk into a company blind. It's getting really frustrating though.
It is legal in any state if you sign authorization form allowing them to deduct money from your pay. As far as the escrow thing as a whole
being legal, to my knowledge there is not any labor laws against this practice.
Let me state this again so that it is clear....no employer can deduct anything from you pay unless it is authorized in writing by the employee or is a court order.
Now for a funny story......trainee drives 2 weeks solo, quits and deadheads home from KY to MS. Company did not pay for miles and then charged the driver for out of route miles........he went to labor board...they ruled that the company could not deduct for out of route miles and had to pay him to drive the truck back to the home terminal, because that is where he started his work and the company was responsible to get him back to his starting point with pay.....regardless of the fact that he choose to deadhead instead of getting a load home......
The MS labor board is a friend of the driver.