An employee who arrives late to his workplace and leaves early if there is no work: what is the ruling?
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The questioner : Some people make excuses. The question has two parts. First, regarding the system, which is the official government work schedule, you find some people arriving half an hour late or leaving work half an hour early, and sometimes they leave an hour or more late. So I do not know what the Shaykh’s opinion is?
The Shaykh : It appears that this does not require an answer, because the compensation must be in exchange for the service. Just as the employee does not accept the state reducing anything from his salary, so it is obligatory that nothing be reduced from the state’s right. Therefore, it is not permissible for a person to be late for the official work schedule or to leave before it ends.
The questioner : But some people, O Shaykh, claim that there is no work at all because the productive work is minimal?
The Shaykh : The important thing is that you are bound by time. We tell the employee: You are bound by time, not by work.
Meaning, it was said to you: You have this salary on the condition that you attend from such a time to such a time, whether there is work or not.
So as long as the reward is tied to time, he must fulfill this time. That is, he must complete this time. He must complete this time, otherwise our eating of what we did not attend to would be in vain. Yes.
The Shaykh : It appears that this does not require an answer, because the compensation must be in exchange for the service. Just as the employee does not accept the state reducing anything from his salary, so it is obligatory that nothing be reduced from the state’s right. Therefore, it is not permissible for a person to be late for the official work schedule or to leave before it ends.
The questioner : But some people, O Shaykh, claim that there is no work at all because the productive work is minimal?
The Shaykh : The important thing is that you are bound by time. We tell the employee: You are bound by time, not by work.
Meaning, it was said to you: You have this salary on the condition that you attend from such a time to such a time, whether there is work or not.
So as long as the reward is tied to time, he must fulfill this time. That is, he must complete this time. He must complete this time, otherwise our eating of what we did not attend to would be in vain. Yes.