Employer and Employee Rights
865 questions
What is the ruling on receiving a monthly salary from the state for the position of "authority assistant," whose services are sometimes not utilized for months, knowing that this salary is not equivalent to that of a regular employee and does not include job benefits?
Is what I did considered Islamically forbidden: bringing a job to the office, then agreeing with the client on a percentage of the profits, then performing the work with an external team and keeping the remainder?
Is it permissible for an employee to take his full due without the knowledge of the employer who refuses to give him his entitlements except in the old national currency after the collapse of the currency's value?
Is the employee in a retail store obliged to deposit the profit generated from selling goods not available in the store—and provided from another source—with the store as a benefit, or is it permissible for him to take it personally?
Is it permissible, from a Sharia perspective, for an employer to prevent an employee from working in the same field after leaving the job, without specifying a duration or having a written contract, knowing that the employee had verbally promised not to compete with the company in its markets and with its clients?
Is she considered sinful, she who lives in a European country and is compelled to open a bank account to receive her salary, given the absence of Islamic banks and the non-use of cash, knowing that the bank takes a small amount from her account annually?
What is the ruling on freelance work with commission deals in the field of information technology, and buying and selling internet services? Is the profit gained from this halal or haram? What is the ruling on paying commissions to employees of contracting companies to accept our offers? Is it permissible for an employee to take this commission? And is this buying and trading halal if the contracts are concluded between companies and are binding?
Is there any suspicion in changing the bid price after knowing the competitors' prices, and is the profit margin from the new price permissible?
Is the employee, who is originally tasked with managing employee affairs, entitled to claim an additional salary for his work in the Financial Affairs Department, knowing that he continued in this additional work for 4 years?
Are the wages and benefits received by employees who clock in and then leave work, in a company suffering from the shutdown of most of its production units, permissible or forbidden?
What is the ruling on money that a father brings from his work in customs, knowing that he requests it from container owners?
Is it permissible to wash and iron personal clothes for free in the hotel, charge one's personal travel charger, and give some staff members from the guests' food and drink?
What is the ruling on money a Muslim receives from their employer for the Thanksgiving holiday, knowing that they neither requested this money nor celebrated the holiday? Is this money permissible to dispose of, or is it better to give it away as charity?
Is the wronged party entitled to demand registration in social security and claim compensation for arbitrary dismissal and annual leave, or is it better to waive the complaint and entrust the matter to Allah?
Is it permissible for a government employee who does not adhere to attendance and departure times to compensate for their financial absence by purchasing tools for work?
Is it permissible to remain at work and receive pay for overtime hours during which no actual work is done, knowing that colleagues do so and the direct manager approves of it?
What is the ruling on an employee of a financing company taking a commission for directing clients to purchase a commodity from a specific supplier without the company's knowledge, and what is the ruling on the supplier paying this commission?
Is it permissible to take a loan from an institution that supports housing loans at 0% for employees, whereby the employee pays the original amount without any increase, knowing that the institution is the one that bears the interest accrued on the loan?
Is it permissible to benefit from the insurance that the employer pays monthly, which allows the employee and his family to benefit from free medical treatments and services, knowing that it is annual insurance from which one benefits whether harm occurs or not?
Does a government employee absolve himself from liability for negligence in his work by depositing an equivalent amount into a "discharging liability" account, and how does this affect his retirement pension?
Is it permissible for an employer to cancel employees' official holidays because they conflict with Islamic Sharia, or to agree with them to cancel them, and does this ruling apply to Muslims and non-Muslims alike?
Is it permissible for an employee to receive a commission from tenants in exchange for an amount that the company refused to disburse to him, with the possibility of returning it to the company later?
What is the ruling on being absent from work with the direct supervisor's knowledge, while receiving a salary, given that the institution is shut down, the residence is far, and transportation costs are exorbitant, and is the money earned considered unlawful gain?
Is the cessation of work and the suspension of employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic considered force majeure, and does this affect the validity of employment contracts and salaries, and is the suspension of salary contingent upon the employer's stipulation of that in the contract, and is there any entity obligated to compensate employees or employers?