Employer and Employee Rights
865 questions
Is it permissible to engage in personal matters or attend to personal needs from home during work hours, given the ability to immediately commence any urgent tasks?
Is it permissible for me to attend three days a week, from 8:30 AM to 7:30 PM, and leave if there is no work, knowing that work often starts late and there is no work in the evening?
Is it permissible for a female employee to take a 3-day leave after postponing a work assignment she received with the approval of her employer?
How can one purify a salary earned from a government company when work tools have been used for personal purposes, and is donating some money to mosques, without specifying the amount, sufficient?
Is it unlawful or lawful for a manager to take two months' salary in exchange for endorsing a competent employee for a position for which there is no other applicant?
How can the amount of ill-gotten money, saved from a work trust without the employer's knowledge, be determined, and what should be done about it if this action would lead to losing the job?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on an employee in the private sector working overtime outside official working hours, whether for personal gain or for another entity, and is the income generated from this work lawful (halal) or unlawful (haram), especially given the existence of contractual conditions that prohibit it?
What is the ruling on the gift and food presented to an employee who was sent to perform a task in the home of a ruler?
Is it permissible for an employee to give customers cash amounts for each invoice without the employer's knowledge, especially since this is a common practice?
Is it permissible for an employee to receive two salaries from two different workplaces, knowing that he is seconded from his first job to the second, and the nature of his work does not require attendance?
What is the ruling on a female employee being raped by her boss at work, given her inability to confront him for fear of losing her job, and her intense remorse thereafter?
Is it permissible for an employee to take a personal loan with interest paid by the employer?
What is incumbent upon me regarding accidentally breaking marble pieces at work, especially since some of them might be reused or repaired, and in one instance, there was another person helping me carry them, but I believe I was the cause?
What is the ruling on the salary of an employee who works in a lawful job, but the employer deals in usury, knowing that the employee is aware of this?
Is it permissible for an employee, to whom the employer has allocated 75 piasters daily for his food, to take goods from the shop worth this amount for his family, or to buy food with it from outside the shop?
Is it permissible to reward an employee who makes an extra effort outside his working hours to find cars for me to buy at the same price as the parent company, knowing that he does not ask for anything in return?
What is the ruling on money acquired from issuing fictitious invoices to other companies to adjust their tax files, without the knowledge of the owner of the company I work for, but in coordination with my manager and sharing this money?
Is the accountant obligated to inform the employer about incurring the costs of an employee who could have been dismissed, after the employer rejected the supervisor's advice to let him go and the employee completed his work, and is the accountant considered sinful, and if so, can he give charity on behalf of the employer?
Is an employee who has been lawfully dismissed entitled to claim his rights from the employer, especially if he has worked for him for many years and the employer has dismissed him?
Am I allowed to prevent the employer from deducting days from workers' salaries or to lift an injustice from one of the workers without his knowledge?
Are the discounts and gifts that an employee receives from suppliers, as a result of his position, relationships, and dealings with them, considered permissible for him, especially since the employee achieves significant profits and savings for the company?
Does using company property for personal gain, such as company cars or phones, or making personal calls from company phones, constitute open sin that necessitates repaying monetary amounts to the company?
Does the discrepancy between the actual work schedule and the one recorded in the university's systems affect the permissibility of the salary, and is the salary permissible if the quorum of teaching hours and administrative tasks for faculty members is not met, even though they have not refused any work assigned to them?
Am I responsible for unintentional mistakes in my work harvesting grapes, knowing that the employer might not hold me responsible if he knew about them?