If you signed the lease containing the above provision about deduction of the amount of your rental obligation to the landlord from your salary by your employer is unusual, but does not appear illegal if you and the landlord signed it.However, my read of the provision is that your employer is under no obligation to honor the deduction provision from your salary. If your employer does not want to pay a portion of your rent out of the salary owed you to the landlord, he or she is under no obligation to do so. The landlord did not sign the lease and gets nothing except more more work to comply with the request.If I was your employer, I would question why you are dragging me into your personal affairs.