What is the ruling on the customer paying an additional amount directly to the programmer without a 15% deduction for the intermediary, and what is the ruling on the programmer and the customer continuing to deal with each other in the future without going through the intermediary and paying the commission, and is it permissible for the intermediary company to demand a permanent commission on all future projects as long as the two parties met through it?
The aforementioned website acts as a broker between the worker and the employer in exchange for a fee. The general ruling is that taking a fee is permissible, but the majority of scholars stipulate that the fee must be known at the time of the contract. It is not permissible for the fee to be a percentage of the worker's wage unless the worker's wage is known at the time of the agreement, which is not available here. Therefore, the contract is invalid, and the website is only entitled to the customary wage (ujrat al-mithl). Some scholars are of the view that it is permissible to make the fee a percentage. Based on this opinion, the website is entitled to the agreed-upon percentage (15%) of the worker's wage for the project that was facilitated through the website, and this does not include other projects that are completed without the website's mediation.
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