2006 Kansas Code - 44-319

      44-319.   Withholding of wages. (a) No employer may withhold, deduct or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless: (1) The employer is required or empowered to do so by state or federal law; (2) the deductions are for medical, surgical or hospital care or service, without financial benefit to the employer, and are openly, clearly and in due course recorded in the employer's books; or (3) the employer has a signed authorization by the employee for deductions for a lawful purpose accruing to the benefit of the employee.

      (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the withholding of amounts authorized in writing by the employee to be contributed by him to charitable organizations; nor shall this section prohibit deductions by check-off of dues to labor organizations or service fees, where such is not otherwise prohibited by law.

      History:   L. 1973, ch. 204, § 7; July 1.