Contracts and Wages
313 questions
Is it obligatory to pay the wages of a housemaid who ran away before completing her contract and has not claimed them, given that her mother is the one claiming them, and the amount does not cover the losses?
Is money earned from writing advertisements for someone around whom complaints of injustice or lying are frequent, even if you continue to advise him and help those affected, considered to have an element of doubt or to be unlawful, or should one stop working for him?
What is the ruling on a mother working as an accountant for employee salaries at the Egyptian Post Authority, which includes permissible and prohibited activities, knowing that she calculates everyone's salaries and has no direct involvement in usurious activities?
What is the ruling on working in a government institution that borrows with interest from banks to pay employee salaries?
Is it permissible to take work-related files for personal benefit from the devices of a company that delays paying the due wages?
What is the difference between a fraudulent, forged, and fake university degree, and what is the ruling on dealing with each of them?
Is the agreement in sharecropping—where the proportion of the output is one-fourth—that the tenant takes one-fourth net, or are transportation fees, loading worker wages, and other expenses deducted from it?
What is the ruling on the increase (bonus) to the agreed-upon salary, stipulated upon exceeding the daily sales average or selling products nearing their expiration date?
What is the ruling on money collected from worshippers on the night of the 27th of Ramadan and given to the Imam of Tarawih prayers, knowing that he receives a monthly salary from the state?
What is the ruling on working in a carpentry factory if the wage is very low, and the worker is compelled to reduce the quality of the product (durability and appearance) to complete a larger quantity, knowing that the factory owner is aware of this and wants to reduce wages to increase his profit? Is this considered deception?
Are the sums of money that employees obtained from deducting workers' wages, and which were distributed as a bonus between them and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, lawful or unlawful?
What is the ruling on money received by an individual from two salaries, one from the workforce without actually performing work, and the other from a university teaching contract that he has not commenced, while concealing the fact that he is receiving the first salary?
Is it permissible for an employee in an institution to participate in a project that he was assigned to supervise in his work, while receiving wages for some of the tasks, and is it obligatory to donate all profits and expenses, or only the profits, in case there is doubt about the occurrence of something prohibited?
Is it considered theft if an employee takes money from the company without the owner's knowledge, in exchange for a right that was not given to him? And what must he do for his repentance to be accepted?
What is the ruling of the Shari'ah on the dispute between a worker and an engineer regarding three months' wages, given that the worker was unable to complete the agreed-upon project due to numerous modifications and harassments, and he refuses to return the wages, arguing that it was a monthly salary and not against the full completion of the project?
Is it permissible for me to undertake programming work for a client on my own account outside official working hours, with the help of another programmer for a sum of money that I will share with him, after the company refused to do this work?
What is the ruling on working a job that requires data entry and word processing, but the first check is only received after inviting people to register on the site, and getting 10 cents per person at the first level and 10 dollars at the second level, with a minimum of 40 dollars to cash the first check, and only then is the basic work of data entry allowed?
Is it permissible for an accountant to take his unpaid financial dues from an oppressive sports club that delays in paying dues and refuses to increase salaries despite having money, or is that considered theft?
Is it permissible to work in customs, knowing that its revenues are deposited into the state budget and distributed in the form of wages and services, and that the workers do not determine the customs tariffs but only enforce them, being regular police forces?
Is it permissible in Islamic law for a person to contribute their effort (including a monthly salary) to a commercial office, on the condition that they receive one-third of the profits but bear no share of the losses?
Am I obligated to pay a sum of money to the institute from which I withdrew due to abuse and injustice, knowing that I did not complete my studies there and did not receive any certificate or proof?
Is the manager entitled to set a daily quota of 13 consultations for his employees, even if this leads to finishing work before official hours? Is it permissible for the employee to use the remaining time for personal matters or to be deficient in work to compensate for it later? Is the manager entitled to reduce the workload for an employee preoccupied with a personal matter?
What is the ruling on companies listing citizens as employees to pay them the salary provided by the state, in exchange for exempting them from attendance and work?
Which takes precedence: the contract texts agreed upon in the hourly wage system, or the labor law that employees rely on in their demands for overtime pay for work on holidays and not deducting sick days? And is the employees' recourse to the law considered deceit after their initial agreement to the contract terms?