Being tasked outside working hours or seconded without performing work
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Q2: A work entity tasks an employee to work outside official hours, despite a prior prohibition on entering the building outside official working hours for security reasons. Is it permissible to accept the task and receive the reward without attending work due to the prohibition? It is known that the work does not require such tasking because of its scarcity or non-existence.
Q3: An employee is seconded for a period of one month or three weeks, even though the task for which he is seconded can be completed in a shorter time than the duration of the secondment, and sometimes there is no travel required, and the task can be finished by phone. Do I have the right to take
the reward for this secondment?
A2, 3: It is not permissible for an employee to take a sum of money in exchange for a task outside working hours or a secondment outside the workplace, unless the work requires someone to be tasked to perform it, and the employee actually performs it directly for the entire duration of the task. Otherwise, what he takes is from the category of consuming wealth unjustly. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:[Al-Baqarah 2:188], and the prohibition of public wealth is like the prohibition of private wealth.
Q3: An employee is seconded for a period of one month or three weeks, even though the task for which he is seconded can be completed in a shorter time than the duration of the secondment, and sometimes there is no travel required, and the task can be finished by phone. Do I have the right to take
the reward for this secondment?
A2, 3: It is not permissible for an employee to take a sum of money in exchange for a task outside working hours or a secondment outside the workplace, unless the work requires someone to be tasked to perform it, and the employee actually performs it directly for the entire duration of the task. Otherwise, what he takes is from the category of consuming wealth unjustly. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:
And do not consume one another's wealth unjustly
وَلا تَأْكُلُوا أَمْوَالَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِ
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