An article by Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, associate partner at the Law firm "YUST", and Natalia Gornostay, lawyer at the Firm, was published in the August issue of the “Labour Disputes” magazine

An article by Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, associate partner at the Law firm "YUST", and Natalia Gornostay, lawyer at the Firm, as co-authors, is published in the issue No. 8 (August 2010) of the “Labour Disputes” magazine that covers the matters of practice of settling labour disputes. The article is dedicated to the matters of withholdings from the employees’ salaries by employers.

Basically, the article summarizes the legal advice provided to the Firm’s clients’ in respect of withholdings from salaries. It considers in detail the cases when employers have to to withhold a part of an employee’s salary, including those not stipulated by the legislation, and gives recommendations on how to process the withholdings in every such case. The authors also review various examples of how the courts apply the legislation on withholdings from salaries in practice.