Employer and Employee Rights
865 questions
What is the ruling on taking a percentage in exchange for informing employees of the names of clients who have contracted with the company without their knowledge, thereby enabling them to obtain their due commission?
Is the percentage taken by salespeople and purchasing agents from some suppliers, without the employer's knowledge, permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram)? And if it is forbidden, does silence about it constitute a sin for whoever knows about it?
What is the ruling on taking a sum of money from job candidates found through personal advertisements on social media, in cooperation with a recruitment office that takes a portion of the money to finalize travel procedures, while the advertiser takes the larger portion for their efforts? And is the money sent by a labor recruitment office as a gift for choosing it considered unlawful?
Is it permissible to delay or leave work early at a healthcare facility due to a lack of work or other employees, and to be present with only one colleague, and what are the consequences of that?
What is the ruling on a housing loan provided by a solidarity institution, which deducts a compulsory monthly fee from every employee, knowing that the institution bears the additional interest resulting from the loan?
Is paying a sum of money to car dealership employees in exchange for pricing spare parts, knowing that the money is paid from one's private salary, considered a bribe?
Is it permissible for an employee to provide the company's financial department with the ID numbers of workers to open current accounts in a usurious bank for receiving salaries, especially since salaries are deposited before the pay date and cannot be withdrawn until after it, and employees may leave part or all of their salary in the account, and they do not care about withdrawing it from an Islamic bank, and all of this is obligatory?
Is it permissible to give zakat to one of the employees in the institution?
Is the salary received by an employee from a private company that inspects food, agricultural, and industrial materials, and whose work includes inspecting alcoholic beverages, lawful or unlawful? And does the same ruling apply to the salaries of customs officials who deal with alcoholic materials?
Is it permissible for an employee who has been arbitrarily dismissed in a Gulf country to demand their full end-of-service benefits according to the country's law, and compensation for the material and moral damages resulting from the dismissal, in addition to the legally stipulated increase for each month of delay in the event of the employer's intransigence?
Is working in a government job under a system of one continuous work week (24 hours a day with a sleep period) followed by three weeks of rest, when the approved system is 15 days of work and 15 days of rest, considered unlawful (haram) or doubtful, knowing that this modification is illegal and may expose employees to accountability?
Is objecting to an employer's use of a copied signature, with the owner's authorization, in official transactions, a right or an exaggeration?
Is the financial purification amount resulting from negligence at work obligatory to be sent to the country where the negligence occurred, or is it permissible to spend it on the welfare of Muslims in one's home country?
How do I legitimize my salary for my previous years of absence, knowing that there is no record of absence in some departments?
Is an employee's taking of his agreed-upon financial dues from the employer, without the employer's knowledge, considered theft? And what must he do if he is unable to return the amount taken?
Is it permissible for an employee residing in government-provided housing, furnished by his employer, to rent out a portion of it to a friend for a fee, given his financial need and outstanding debts?
What is to be done about a pharmacist who deliberately reduces the amount of water in the preparation of medicines to make them concentrated, thinking this is correct to avoid spoilage of excess quantities, and what are the Sharia implications of this?
Must the estate of the deceased husband be divided after 38 years of his death so that his wife's conscience is clear before Allah, knowing that some of this estate has been disposed of during that period?
Is it a condition to write a trust receipt after the employment contract to ensure the employee's commitment and non-breach of work, especially since the employee is responsible for goods, devices, and sales of significant financial value?
Is it permissible for an employee working in the field of information technology to receive a salary for installing unlicensed (pirated) software on the company's computers, and what is the ruling concerning past periods?
Is it permissible for a doctor to take money resulting from his participation in a research study for a pharmaceutical company, knowing that the company stipulated that the participant be a doctor working in a university hospital, and that his data were submitted as such, contrary to reality?
Does the Hadith: "He who deceives us is not of us" apply to a government employee who designs and sells programs in his spare time, knowing that the law only permits government employees to hold one job?
Is it permissible to purchase a direct ticket and charge it to the employer, then claim its value and book a cheaper (transit) ticket instead, in exchange for enduring hardship and saving money, knowing that the direct ticket costs four times the transit ticket?
Is it permissible for an employer to withhold half of an employee's monthly salary as a guarantee of their remaining with them for one year, with the confiscation of the withheld amount should the employee leave the job before the year is up?