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Is it permissible to secretly take money from the employer, equivalent to the unpaid overtime hours, given that he refuses to pay for them and verbally abuses the employee for not complying with work requests outside official hours?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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If an employer states in advance that he will not pay for overtime hours, the worker is not permitted to take anything from the employer's money without his knowledge, even if there is a regulation in the Ministry of Labor system that stipulates otherwise. The worker must either refrain from working overtime or work without compensation. The worker's fear of having his employment terminated or his inability to transfer his sponsorship is not considered a valid form of duress that would alter the ruling.

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