Applying mukharajah (a slave paying his master a fixed sum from his earnings) to imported labor

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does mukharajah apply to what some sponsors do, in that they bring in workers when he has no work for them?

The Shaykh:
These are not slaves; the workers are not slaves, they are free.

The questioner:
He says: that he brings in his workers when he has no work and leaves them to work in the market in return for a sum of money that he takes from them,

The Shaykh:
This is not permissible, because he was only allowed to bring them in on the condition that they work for him himself, and if he has no work, he sends them home or transfers their sponsorship. As for bringing them in and hiring them out like livestock and taking money for them, this is not permissible; it is forbidden by the Shari'ah (Islamic sacred law) and by the regulations, and this is not permissible. A resolution has been issued on it by the Council of Senior Scholars declaring it forbidden, the prohibition of this thing, yes. They are not like the slaves who pay mukharajah. This is a problem, because some of them say that even the maids are what their right hands possess, and they have intercourse with them. Yes. I mean, people's understanding, Glory be to Allah. Yes.