Employer and Employee Rights
1,089 questions
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 benefiting from money that will be obtained in exchange for canceling some domestic flights, given the possibility of avoiding this beforehand by choosing a direct travel route?
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?
What is the Sharīʿah ruling concerning a store employee who was defrauded with a forged check exceeding one thousand Moroccan Dirhams, resulting in the non-payment for the goods to the store owner, especially since he does not recall whether he was previously warned against accepting checks exceeding this amount?
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in a usurious bank for receiving salaries, especially since salaries are deposited before the pay date and cannot be withdrawn until after it, and employees may leave part or all of their salary in the account, and they do not care about withdrawing it from an Islamic bank, and all of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 money earned from private printing work, without the knowledge of the printing press owner, unlawful (haram)?
I work as a graphic designer, and I printed something for my friend at work. The owner refused to take money for it and said it was a gift, but I took the money from my friend without the owner's knowledge. Is this forbidden (haram)?
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 it permissible for an employee to sell an invention to his company—through an intermediary—knowing that the company did not reward him for previous inventions, and the invention will save it money?
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 an employee sinful if he follows the official and costly method for sending correspondence (registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt) instead of a less costly and unofficial method that would expose him to administrative accountability?
Is the day off, on which attendance and departure are signed, and which is customary in the Ministry of Health, considered lawful or unlawful?
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?