Contracts and Wages
313 questions
How can one atone for the sin of secretly taking money from an employer—due to insufficient salary—especially after many years have passed and the employment has ended?
What is the percentage of those working on zakat from its disbursements?
Is it permissible for a female employee to take a sick leave salary issued without appearing before a medical committee, and is she entitled to financial differences for a previous period of unpaid leave?
What is the ruling on one who supervises a project for his brother, friend, or relative, then takes a wage for that work without prior agreement and conceals it?
Is it permissible for a person who has retired early and receives a pension to take on a new job and earn an additional salary without the knowledge of the Social Insurance Agency, in order to improve his income, knowing that some consider this forbidden and that the Social Insurance Agency might stop the pension if it finds out?
Must I pay the night guard's wages for my shop, given that I stopped paying a long time ago due to repeated thefts, and the new guard believes that I am wrongfully consuming people's wealth because he guards the entire area?
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)?
What is the legal (Sharia) opinion regarding the responsibility of a company manager whose company is suffering losses, with the owner not responding to improvement proposals, and workers demanding salary increases that the owner rejects?
What is the ruling on drafting a complaint for a worker employed in "wine breweries" if not doing so will result in the employee's dismissal?
Is it permissible to keep employees who are not currently needed and pay their salaries from Zakat funds, and is it a condition to inform them that what they are being paid is from Zakat?
Have I or the accountant committed a sin; because I worked for a person and agreed with him on a certain amount, but he reduced my wage, so the accountant gave me the agreed-upon wage without the employer's knowledge and without recording it in the books?
What is the ruling on not giving an employee his wages in order to control him, and on dismissing him without his entitlements when he asks to leave the job, given that he is a religious person?
What is the ruling on those in charge of the productive unit project in government schools taking an amount that exceeds their allocated percentage, knowing that the government's share of the project is fixed while the actual income is much greater?
What is the legal ruling on working in the construction of banks and receiving wages or commissions for it?
Is money earned considered halal if the intern is absent from work with the approval of his manager, who asked him to sign in as present, knowing that training regulations do not allow leave before eight months, and that the person responsible for salaries confirmed no deduction unless the manager mentions the absence in the report?
What is the ruling on money awarded by the court to a worker for arbitrary dismissal, and is it permissible for him to take it?
Is it permissible to steal food from work to compensate for the injustice inflicted by the employer?
What is the ruling on money earned from cleaning the synagogue courtyard for Jews for three days, and is this money considered unlawful?
What is the ruling on a company's failure to pay agreed-upon commissions under the pretext of not achieving certain sales, and what is the ruling on their preventing employees from resigning or returning to their home countries?
Should one search for a maid who ran away and left work after 20 days, in order to give her wages, knowing that she did not steal anything but threatened the employer, and six years have passed since the incident?
Is money earned from a private business, which its owner sometimes managed during official working hours without affecting his performance, considered permissible, or is it rightfully the company's? And is it permissible to donate this money with the intention of dedicating its reward to the company if it is rightfully theirs, or with the intention of acceptance from Allah if it is rightfully his?
What is the ruling on working and receiving a salary in a training project for workers of a company that produces – as part of its production – alcoholic beverages, knowing that the company for which the questioner works will dismiss him if he refuses?
Does the sponsor have the right, Islamically, to refuse the transfer of sponsorship in light of changing market conditions and wages, and to threaten to terminate the residency, especially given that he previously increased the salary? And is this considered exploitation?
What is the ruling on a partnership entered into by two individuals who agreed that one would pay an advance due to their ignorance of the costs, followed by the other paying a similar amount, but it became clear that the second partner did not pay his full share and used project funds for speculation in the stock market, incurring losses? And is it permissible to dissolve this partnership?