What is the ruling on employees in a private company exploiting the funds collected from customers to achieve personal profits before returning them to the company?
What we understand from the question is that the company sells on credit, and it has employees who collect debts. Some of these employees take these funds and trade with them, earning profits, and only hand them over to the company after they have traded.
The answer is from two perspectives: 1. What the employees do by trading with the company's money without its permission is unlawful (), and they must repent for that. 2. Are the profits they gained theirs or the company's? There are two opinions among the scholars: Profit follows effort (the view of the Malikis and Shafi'is). Profit follows capital (the view of the Hanafis and Hanbalis). We have favored that profit follows effort, and accordingly, these profits belong to the employees, with the obligation of repentance and not returning to such an act.
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