My previous employer is a supporter of United Way. Once a year the human resources manager would go to each employee with a pledge card. I was only making minimum wage so for 2 years in a row I made a one time donation of $10.00. Besides the one time gift you could also opt to have a percentage of your paycheck automatically donated every week.

Things changed in my 3rd year. Employees were told that we could not give donations under $20.00 or less than 3% of the paycheck. I thought the rule was ridiculous, a donation is a donation! That year, I opted not to give any money to United Way and instead picked my own charity to donate to.

Was my employer wrong for setting a minimum donation amount for a charity?