When you get paid, your employer can't tell you where or how to spend your money. You can choose how you want to spend your wages and your employer can't stop you. Your employer also can't fire you because of how or where you spend your wages.
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11A: Proceedings by Labour Inspector or worker to recover arrears of wages from person involved in failure to comply, or
"Getting unpaid wages back from someone who broke the rules"
12A: No premium to be charged for employment, or
"Your employer can't make you pay to get a job or to work for them."
No employer shall impose any requirement on any worker as to any place or manner in which or any person with whom that worker shall expend wages received by that worker, or dismiss any worker on account of any place or manner in which or any person with whom that worker expends those wages.
