About making deductions from employees’ salaries
As an employer, you can be ordered to make deductions from an employee’s salary, including their holiday pay, to cover an unpaid claim against the employee.
If you must make deductions from an employee’s salary and holiday pay, we’ll send you a letter to inform you of this.
In the letter, we’ll inform you, among other things, about:
- the basis for the enforcement proceeding and the type of claim, for example, fines, student loans, compensations, etc.
- the amount you must deduct from the employee each month
- when you can stop making deductions
Important information
If you make deductions from an employee’s salary without paying the deducted amount to us, your business is liable for this amount.
If the whole or part of the deduction amount for any reason cannot be deducted, you must contact us and inform us of which amount you're paying to us and why you're not deducting the full amount.
If you're making deductions from the salary of an employee who is laid off or on long-term sick leave, you must contact us to inform us as soon as possible.
When you inform us, we can forward the deduction to NAV.
If the employee has quit, you must contact us to inform us right away.
If the employee has quit and you do not inform us of this, you’ll get reminders to make deductions from the employee’s salary.
You must also report that the employee has quit in the a-melding.
If the amount you deducted from your employee and paid to us was too high, you can apply for a refund.