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Garnishment cost in time

Date: Fri, 12/15/2006 - 06:09

Submitted by anonymous
on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 06:09

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We have an employee that is under a garnishment order. This process is not an easy or uninvolved one and requires a significant amount of time to enforce on our (employer) part. Is it possible or legal to "charge" for this extra time involved in preparing the garnishment process?


Wouldn't it also be unfair to charge additional amounts, since the employee's paycheck is already being garnished, indicating they are already in financial trouble of some sort?? Just on a moral standpoint, I mean. Seems like pouring salt on an open wound to me.

I don't dispute the fact that it causes the employer additional work, but is it so much that you feel you need to charge the employee?


lrhall41

Submitted by SUEBEEHONEY70 on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 16:21

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Suebeehoney, Couldnt agree with you more. How much does one person deserve to be tortured? KYSIDE38


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Submitted by KYSIDE38 on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 16:26

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AH!!! I can answer this one! I am an HR rep...filing writs IS a huge amount of time and paperwork..But you cannot bill the employee for your time, nor can you punish them in any way. That would be a huge violation under many federal laws, I can list some of them if need be!! You would get a WHOPPING fine and could find your own credibility/job compromised.


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Submitted by finsfan13 on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 17:21

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In Illinois the Wage Assignment Act lets an employer take and keep $12 of what they pull from the employee's check. But the way the law is worded, it sounds like the creditor has to eat that cost:

A fee of $12 for each wage assignment shall be collected by and paid to the employer and the amount so paid shall be credited against the amount of the wage????????earner's outstanding debt.


I know too, in Wisconsin the creditor has send a $15 check to the employer when they send in the garnishment order.


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Submitted by DebtCruncher on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 17:56

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Yep, we can bill the credito..But never ever the employee. Bad stuff, that is.

You can get in big, big, big trouble for punishing an employee in any way shape or form. The assistant to the HR rep before me went to court over a similar situation. Garnishments and voluntary deductions are very tricky things, there are so many violations, it's not even reasonable.


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Submitted by finsfan13 on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 17:59

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