What is the ruling on accounting work that involves reporting workers as absent when they are not, or reporting them as having absconded while the accountant knows of their innocence, in addition to collecting monthly sums from them in exchange for not reporting them, and is the salary earned from this work permissible or impermissible?
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Your work in accounting and supervising laborers is permissible. As for reporting a laborer, if you know of his innocence and that he is being wronged, then it is not permissible for you to assist the employer in harming him. However, if the laborer is absent without right and is wronging the employer, then there is no blame in reporting him.
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