Employer and Employee Rights
1,310 questions
Is it permissible for an employer to deduct late-arrival penalties from salaries without prior notification of the re-activation of the deduction clause, and must they return these amounts, and what if they are not returned?
How can one repent and return an unknown amount of stolen money to the employer without informing him or losing the job? Is it permissible to repay it by working additional hours without pay, and how is the value of these hours estimated Islamically?
Is it permissible to use purchased batteries, which the office does not need, for personal matters before they deteriorate over time?
Should the employee be bound by the contract concluded with the institution, which stipulates his work from seven in the morning until one in the afternoon, or by the word of the official who allows him to finish work at ten?
Is it permissible for workers to take damaged cardboard boxes, destined for the trash or taken by workers without the management's knowledge, to their homes for packaging?
What is the ruling on performing tasks unrelated to one's primary job as a programming مسؤول [official/responsible person], such as paying for website services for free and then profiting from this amount from the company? Is this money lawful or unlawful?
Is it permissible for an employee to take money from clients outside of the permitted cases to cover personal expenses without the company's knowledge, given that their salary is insufficient and their request for a raise has been denied?
Is it permissible for me to use the company car designated for me for personal use and for paid overtime work?
What is the ruling on covering at work (24 hours), such as one person being present in place of another, and preparing the other for any reason?
Is it permissible to sell non-confidential work data, for which the company did not pay, in order to reclaim a portion of rights usurped by the employer, taking into account personal use of the internet during work and obtaining data from a colleague without his knowledge?
Is it permissible to demand the cost of renewing the residency permit for eight years, or to take it secretly, given that the establishment does not pay it to this worker, unlike the rest of the workers?
Is it permissible for an employee who books airline tickets to personally contract with companies that his own company has rejected (in order to achieve his goal), while bearing the responsibility for non-payment, and to obtain a personal profit in addition to the company's profit?
Is it religiously permissible for an institution to require its employees, whose salaries have been delayed for over a year, to sell villas listed for a specific price, and if sold for a lower price, the difference is deducted from their salaries, knowing that they are forced to do so?
Is it Islamically permissible for an accountant to settle the inventory by charging the deficit to the departments and removing the surplus from them, knowing that both the deficit and surplus result from the negligence of storekeepers, and that the company director is aware of this but has taken no action? And is this settlement considered as an approval of the theft that might occur because of it?
Is what the husband did permissible by dealing with another printing press to print the safety instructions for the aircraft without his manager's knowledge, and is the money resulting from that permissible? And is he sinful for accepting the private work outside official working hours, which later turned out to be related to his original company's work, and is this money permissible?
Is it permissible for an employee who has not received his full entitlements from the company to donate half of the entitlements, make a quarter of them an endowment (waqf), and take the remaining quarter?
Is money taken from the landlord, which is part of the rent paid by a governmental entity without its knowledge, considered unlawful and included in devouring people's property unjustly?
Is it necessary to inform the employer about taking unsellable broken biscuits, or is it sufficient to give him the money?
Are very slight errors in garment sewing—such as an increase or decrease in stitches—considered unlawful (haram), and is it necessary to inform the employer about them?
Is it permissible to take wood designated for heating from the company and give it to someone else who is not an employee?
Is it permissible for an employee to deal personally with the clients of his company to make a profit from requests that the company rejects, while the employee is keen not to let the company lose the client?
What is the ruling on a university student assigning the work of a research paper that is his responsibility to another person in exchange for money, while submitting the research as if it were the student's own work?
What is the ruling on accepting the agreed-upon financial compensation after dropping the complaint against the employer who insulted and photographed me?
What is the ruling on keeping a tip, or a portion thereof, knowing that it is distributed unfairly, and is that considered theft?