Q: Can the owner of my company take my pay check if I quit my job even thou I owe him money.
He offered to have my teeth fixed then after word he made me sign a payroll deduction form of 100$ every pay period im not sure exactly what i owe him. Never signed a paper saying I owe this amount of money. The total cost of the bill is over 6000$. I quit voluntarily for my own reasons and should've been payed today but didnt recieve my pay check they agreement between us was verbal exect for the payroll deduction
A:
No way to say for sure without more information. Best response I can give based upon a little speculation is that legally probably not but practically yes. I don’t know what the amount of your paycheck is or how long you’ve been paying back the payroll deduction but if you employer paid for $6,000.00 worth of dental work and you only paid him back a few hundred dollars he probably feels he got the short end of the stick.
Also it appears that he is withholding your check so you will have to fight him and the likely cost of fighting him over the last paycheck will exceed the amount of the paycheck. Not sure it is worth the fight but your call. If you decide to fight over the paycheck be prepared for him to claim you owe him for the dental work.
Good luck.
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