Can employer make deductions from your wages

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An employer wants to deduct an employees clients unpaid bills from the employees commission.
The company provide a service, the employee runs a dept in the company. Sometimes customers dont pay for the service there and then they are sent an invoice. Some customers havent paid and the employer has told the employee that the outstanding monies are being deducted from his commission. The new rule is retrospective covering the last 3 years !!!!! Other depts can write off bad debts up to 3% of annual turnover but this head of dept has to cover all existing and future bad debts from his own pocket.
Can someone point me towards the law in this area please.

Delancey

Sounds way over the top , however is there any chance that the employer rather than deducting the full invoice value of the bad debt is in fact deducting the commission that was paid to the employee in respect of that sale ? - this sort of clawback is not uncommon .
Clawing back a commission is one thing , forcing staff to cover bad debts in full is quite another.

Jarndyce

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1991/en/act/pub/0025/sec0005.html#zza25y1991s5

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Thanks for the link exactly what I was looking for.
No deduction isn't for the commission on the deal - that would be reasonable it's for the full invoice amount to be deducted from future commission, so at the moment the employee is minus two grand in commission