9 APA's Top Payroll Questions & Answers for 2020 garnishment laws. Tips received in excess of a tip credit amount or in excess of the wages paid directly by the employer if no tip credit is claimed are not earnings for the CCPA. Fact Sheet #30 (https://www. dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/whdfs30.pdf) addresses this. Other Deductions From Pay Garnishment received by employer in Georgia Q. We are in the state of Georgia. We've just received a garnishment summons for one of our employees. Can this be contested? Can the company discharge the employee if the company is not reimbursed for the garnishment? This is the only garnishment for the employee in question. A. In Georgia, the ability of an employer to contest the garnishment of an employee's wages is subject to strict time limits. If these limits are not observed, the employer becomes liable for the full amount of the defendant's debt. A garnishee that fails to answer a garnishment summons by the 45th day after service of the summons of garnishment is automatically be in default. The default may be opened as a matter of right by the filing of a garnishee answer within 15 days of the day of default and payment of costs. You cannot discharge the employee because of the garnishment. Georgia law prohibits an employer from discharging an employee "by reason of the fact that such employee's earnings have been subjected to garnishment for any one obligation." 72https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/whdfs30.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/whdfs30.pdf