Employer and Employee Rights
865 questions
Does an employee's eagerness to inform his employer of his work results and diligence in it, in order to improve his professional standing, without harming others or pleasing his superior in a way that angers Allah, count as minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) or as taking means to increase one's provision, alongside supplication and seeking from Allah?
Is there a difference between Fatwa no. 2541486 and Fatwa no. 8077 regarding the ruling on an employee taking a loan from their company to buy a car that will be registered in the company's name?
What is the ruling on an employee taking commissions, incentives, or cash payments from sales representatives in exchange for purchasing goods, or settling checks early, or stamping invoices that do not belong to his institution, without the employer's knowledge?
Is it permissible for an employee who stole money from his company to return the stolen amount by purchasing supplies for the company with that money without presenting invoices, in order to avoid harm from the company's owner?
What is the ruling on money earned from working as an accountant when some important accounting data is lost due to negligence and power outages, and what is the proper repentance for that?
What is the ruling on benefiting from the aid provided by an insurance company that allows employees to be reimbursed for treatment costs and to receive financial aid in certain cases, such as marriage, childbirth, or death, without paying any amount?
What is the ruling on carrying out private work, not in violation of state regulations, using company equipment in exchange for paying its rental cost, especially given that the official of the government entity offers this work, which has limited profit?
Is it permissible for an employee to purchase sunglasses and prescription glasses using the amount allocated for prescription glasses from the medical insurance, with an additional payment?
Is a government employee who resigns from his position while awaiting appointment to another position, and receives his full salary without performing any work during this period, committing a sin, and is his salary considered lawful?
Is exchanging foreign currency for hotel guests into Qatari Riyals considered permissible (halal) or impermissible (haram) personal wealth?
Is it permissible for employees to be paid for completing tasks for investors and contractors that their own staff are unable to perform, provided that they do not neglect their primary duties?
Is it permissible for an employee who has not been assigned any tasks and is asked to wait to receive his salary for the period he did not regularly attend work, and what is the expiation for that?
What is the ruling on earnings acquired from a source suspected of being illicit, such as an employer who sells defective goods or a person who may infringe intellectual property rights?
Is it permissible to be absent from work and provide proof of a reason different from the real reason to avoid salary deduction, knowing that the real reasons may not have official proof?
What is the ruling on the insurance that the company will pay for me in a non-Islamic country?
Is it permissible for an employer to address his employee with abusive language and treat him harshly? And is this considered a form of arrogance that falls under the scope of the Hadith: "No one who has the weight of a mustard seed of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise"?
Is it permissible for a traffic officer to receive a commission in exchange for helping clients obtain documents outside the scope of official work and working hours, and does the ruling differ based on the extent of the employer's knowledge and the location of the work (inside or outside)?
Is it permissible to exchange cash for transfers, and what is incumbent upon me to do, given that I am an accountant in a company, and the manager of the branch where I work exchanges the company's cash amounts for transfers from his personal account, just as he asked me to inform the factory owner that there are no sales—which is contrary to reality—in order to force him to retract the cash sale, and is my salary lawful if I do not report these violations?
What is the ruling on the financial compensation awarded by the court to an employee who has been dismissed from permanent, indefinite employment? And is it permissible for employees to take some of the employer's belongings if he evades paying compensation and there is nothing that can be sold to settle it?
What is the ruling on taking the insurance amount and using it to buy sunglasses that are more expensive than the compensation, or using it for something other than eyeglasses?
Is it permissible for an employee, whose employer provides him with a travel ticket within the Kingdom, to request a ticket to the furthest region from his workplace in order to receive its value in cash and benefit from it for himself and his family without actually traveling?
Am I entitled to claim additional pay for working at two companies belonging to the same employer, even though the initial agreement was to work at one company and there was no increase in working hours?
Is it permissible to take compensation for damage caused by a domestic worker during a two-year period?
Is it permissible for an employee to receive a financial reward from farmers in exchange for completing wheat delivery transactions without mediation?