Employer and Employee Rights
865 questions
Is it permissible for an employer to own a healthcare recruitment agency that requires workers to have workers' compensation insurance, general liability insurance, and malpractice insurance?
Is it permissible to eat from spoiled foods that the company has decided to destroy and throw into the trash?
What is the definition of bribery (rishwa) in Islam, and is paying a sum of money to someone who arranges hotel bookings in exchange for giving the passengers to the driver considered bribery? If so, does this amount make the entire income unlawful (haram)?
What is the ruling on a retirement pension obtained through an inaccurate medical report describing "acute psychotic disorder," knowing that its recipient was psychologically exhausted, not ill, and wishes to dispose of it to obtain lawful social assistance? Is this pension considered "ghulul" (unlawful taking from public funds)?
Is it permissible to purchase an apartment for residential purposes from a fund affiliated with one's employer, operating on the principle of Islamic Murabaha, where the fund buys the apartment and then sells it to the employee in installments, with the apartment mortgaged to the fund until the full price is paid?
Is it permissible to receive a hidden payment for performing the work of an absent colleague, which has been entirely imposed upon me without my consent or compensation, especially since the employer does not acknowledge this right and it affects my well-being and my family's life?
Is it permissible to sell mobile phones to customers by installment, knowing that I first buy them from the store for cash then sell them to them by installment?
What is the method of repentance from ill-gotten money acquired through negligence at work, and how can one dispose of it if it is not currently available, and what is the way to have prayers answered and obtain forgiveness?
Is the price of the tickets that the questioner received from the company, but did not use for travel, considered his right or the company's right?
Is it permissible for an employee, whose employer has failed to provide housing for his family, to rent housing at the employer's expense without his knowledge, given that the nature of the job allows for this?
Is it haram to own free shares in a global oil company – which are feared to deposit money in usurious banks – and sell them immediately?
What is the ruling on money taken by the questioner from the employer as compensation for a portion of his wages being withheld?
What is the ruling on the money of a father who works in a tourist restaurant and receives a percentage of the profit, a monthly salary, in addition to tips that he distributes to bus drivers by order of the employer, with the knowledge of the tourism company owner, and he himself takes a tip with the knowledge and encouragement of the employer?
Should the employment agency's commission be paid based on the salary agreed upon in the old contract, or on the higher salary after renegotiation, keeping in mind that the agency is unaware of the new salary?
Is it obligatory to donate the entire amount of a bonus mistakenly disbursed, or is it permissible to benefit from part of it and donate the remainder?
Is it permissible for me to take the housing allowance designated for doctors if I own a house and do not pay rent?
Is the increase in money deposited in the bank for 14 years, which was allocated by the deceased father's employer, considered usury (riba)? And what should be done with this money?
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?
Is it permissible for a company owner to deduct days from an employee's leave balance to resolve a dispute between employees?
Is a lunch invitation extended by a supplier company to an engineer at a contracting company considered permissible or forbidden (halal or haram), and should he accept it in the future or continue to refuse it, applying the standard of the hadith: "What is the matter with an agent whom I send, and he says, 'This is for you, and this was given to me as a gift'? Why did he not stay in his father's house or his mother's house to see whether anything would be gifted to him or not?"?
Are the profits resulting from the aforementioned partnership work, which includes contracts from the parent company and externally, considered lawful (halal) or unlawful (haram), taking into account the contract clause that prohibits external work and the employee's ignorance of this clause when signing it?
Is Zakat permissible for workers such as the driver and the maid, and how are the deserving relatives determined?
Is it permissible for an employee to agree to open an account in a usurious bank—in order to receive a financial benefit from his employer—with the intention of getting rid of the usurious interest upon receiving the amount?
Am I entitled to take what shop owners offer me as "gasoline money" after purchasing from them, knowing that my employer does not give me enough for my work and deducts from my salary without just cause?