Employment Law: Deductions of an Employee's Salary/payroll in Kenya

Below is Section 19 of the Kenya  Employment Act which provides for laws concerning deductions of salaries

19. Deduction of wages
(1) Notwithstanding section 17(1), an employer may deduct from the wages
of his employee—
(a) any amount due from the employee as a contribution to any
provident fund or superannuation scheme or any other scheme
approved by the Commissioner for Labour to which the employee
has agreed to contribute;
(b) a reasonable amount for any damage done to, or loss of, any
property lawfully in the possession or custody of the employer
occasioned by the wilful default of the employee;
(c) an amount not exceeding one day’s wages in respect of each
working day for the whole of which the employee, without leave or
other lawful cause, absents himself from the premises of the
employer or other place proper and appointed for the performance
of his work;
(d) an amount equal to the amount of any shortage of money arising
through the negligence or dishonesty of the employee whose
contract of service provides specifically for his being entrusted with
the receipt, custody and payment of money;
(e) any amount paid to the employee in error as wages in excess of the
amount of wages due to him;
(f) any amount the deduction of which is authorised by any written law
for the time being in force, collective agreement, wage
determination, court order or arbitration award;
(g) any amount in which the employer has no direct or indirect
beneficial interest, and which the employee has requested the
employer in writing to deduct from his wages;
(h) an amount due and payable by the employee under and in
accordance with the terms of an agreement in writing, by way of
repayment or part repayment of a loan of money made to him by the
employer, not exceeding fifty percent of the wages payable to that
employee after the deduction of all such other amounts as may be
due from him under this section; and
(i) such other amounts as the Minister may prescribe.
(2) No employer shall make a deduction from the wages payable to an
employee as an advance of wages in consideration of, or as a reward for, the
provision of employment for that employee, or for retaining the employee in
employment.
(3) Without prejudice to any right of recovery of any debt due, and
notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, the total amount of all
deductions which under the provisions of subsection (1), may be made by an
employer from the wages of his employee at any one time shall not exceed