Is taking 20% of the pay for overtime work, for which colleagues are assigned by an individual who selects those assigned without specific criteria, considered bribery and unlawful (haram)?
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If the official selects employees for overtime work, it is not permissible for him to take a portion of their wages in return; for gifts to workers are ghulūl (ill-gotten gains). And if what he takes is a bribe, it is not permissible to pay it to him unless you have a right that you cannot obtain except by giving it; for Allah has cursed the one who gives and the one who takes a bribe.
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