Contracts and Wages

• What is the ruling on deducting three days' pay from an employee's salary if they are absent for one day without a valid excuse?

• Must payment be made for the laundry service that damaged the clothes, and is it permissible to demand compensation for the damage?

• Does your participation in recording and calculating the dues of workers, by decision of their employer who oppresses them, make you a partner in sin?

• Is it permissible for the husband's parents and his married siblings to take money and be extravagant with it, and does a working wife have the right to demand her share to support her siblings?

• How should this man act so that God may be pleased with him, knowing that returning the money will lead to his imprisonment, and given that this money was taken from his employer due to low wages, and that he intends to use this money to pay for the land on which he is building?

• What is the ruling on working as an accountant at the French Institute where invoices for artists' accommodation and meals, as well as their wages, are paid, and tuition fees are collected, bearing in mind its various activities such as theater, singing, teaching the French language, and services for students wishing to study in France?

• Is money earned from engineering supervision contracts permissible, knowing that the engineer does not perform actual work, and it is a condition for registration not to be a government employee? Is this money considered dubious and must it be returned?

• Is the salary earned from working in the maintenance of electronic devices, which includes musical instruments, permissible, albeit temporarily until another job is found, knowing that there is a serious search for an alternative job?

• What must be done concerning the incentives and bonuses disbursed in customs departments when it is difficult to ascertain their source, knowing that the supplication of those who consume unlawful earnings is not answered?

• Is the husband's work that necessitates intermingling with women considered a legal necessity, and what is the ruling on the money earned from it? And must the wife encourage her husband to remain in a place free from intermingling to ensure lawful earnings?

• Is an employee who limits his work to transferring employee salaries from the company's account in a usurious bank to their accounts in other banks sinful?

• What is the ruling on designing a program for an interest-based bank, knowing that the employee will be fired if he refuses?

• What is the ruling on the wage received by an accountant who helps his clients conceal the true transaction figures to evade taxes?

• Is it permissible for an employee who is late for work—and has been considered absent—to sign the attendance register for the days he was late but did attend work, and what is the ruling regarding his salary if he does so? And what should he do if his lateness recurs due to circumstances beyond his control?

• What is the ruling on money earned from working in a restaurant in Germany, if the student sometimes received his wages without actual work, then the owner of the restaurant committed suicide, and is it necessary to consult the family of the employer regarding this matter?

• Why does going to a soothsayer not affect the lawfulness of money?

• What is the ruling on a bus driver transporting Christians to churches for their religious rituals, or to Christian dance troupes that perform some rituals on their holidays?

• Is the income received from a government program for youth employment permissible, knowing that the nature of the work with the contractor is not regularly disciplined, and a document of attendance is signed to receive the wage?

• Does taking money from the shop count as stealing if the shop is owned by the person along with his siblings?

• Is it permissible to spend the financial amounts obtained from assignments outside the city, knowing that I did not go on these assignments, but rather remained at my work to complete other tasks at the request of the manager?

• What is the ruling on giving the butcher parts of the sacrificial animal (hooves and head) as payment, even though it is known that he has already received his wages in cash, and what is the ruling on buying the hide and adding its price to the price of another sacrificial animal?

• Is the worker rewarded for his work despite receiving wages for it?

• Is participation in a committee that approves investment projects financed by usurious banks considered a usurious transaction, and what is the ruling on the money earned from this participation?

• Is it permissible to work temporarily in selling alcoholic beverages to meet a need, provided that the financial compensation for it is disposed of?