A group of employees with technical specializations were assigned administrative duties in a location other than their original workplace due to the interests of the work, and the working hours there are fewer.
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The questioner : In the name of Allah.
Noble Shaykh, there is a group of employees whose specializations are technical. The interests of the work required assigning them administrative duties in a location other than their original workplace, and the working hours there are fewer than what is required of them if they were in their previous job. This is known at the ministry level. On Thursdays, two groups take turns covering it with the approval of their direct manager, and this is justified by the scarcity of work on that day. Is this situation permissible? Given that this administrative work has allowances that they do not receive due to the difference in job title?
The Shaykh : Yes, I say: May Allah reward you. This is an important question, but the one who directs the question is the person responsible for the interest, because I see that it is not in the interest for an employee to come to a manager or head and ask about a job that the manager or head is doing, which may be contrary to the system and contrary to trust. Such a thing should not be answered. Why should it not be answered? Because he has no power to do anything. Even if I answered him, can he change the situation as long as the manager is insistent on what he wants? No, he cannot change the situation. Rather, the matter may become more severe. Perhaps this answer, which was directed to the one who asked, will be taken by the questioner as a weapon against this manager to tarnish his reputation and cause confusion. And I am not intending a specific person. The questioner is to be thanked for his question, but I mean in general that it is not befitting for the mufti to issue a fatwa in such matters because they do not serve the interest at all. Who takes on the question? If he wants to ask, from whom? The head or the manager who can change it. But if one individual from this group asks, and it is said: This is haram, or not permissible, this is betrayal, and the salary is haram, and so on, what is the benefit? There is no benefit. In reality, there is no benefit. For this reason, I thank my young brothers who find a contradiction in their jobs and then ask about it. We thank them, but I do not see that they should be answered because that does not serve the interest. Then I also advise those in charge of the work to fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic and to proceed according to what has been prescribed for them from above. And if they see the interest lies in the opposite, let them submit a report and advice to those above them to adjust the situation, unless they are enabled to do so and it is said: You are trusted and you are free in what you see of directing and changing the specializations of employees. That is another matter. Then, regarding such questions, I also love for my young brothers who are concerned that I love for the question to be in secret between them and the responsible parties, because we do not like for faults to spread in work departments and institutions. Yes, you are from Unaizah, please.
The questioner : Can it happen, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : If I told you the answer to this question, this is the answer: It is not possible.
Noble Shaykh, there is a group of employees whose specializations are technical. The interests of the work required assigning them administrative duties in a location other than their original workplace, and the working hours there are fewer than what is required of them if they were in their previous job. This is known at the ministry level. On Thursdays, two groups take turns covering it with the approval of their direct manager, and this is justified by the scarcity of work on that day. Is this situation permissible? Given that this administrative work has allowances that they do not receive due to the difference in job title?
The Shaykh : Yes, I say: May Allah reward you. This is an important question, but the one who directs the question is the person responsible for the interest, because I see that it is not in the interest for an employee to come to a manager or head and ask about a job that the manager or head is doing, which may be contrary to the system and contrary to trust. Such a thing should not be answered. Why should it not be answered? Because he has no power to do anything. Even if I answered him, can he change the situation as long as the manager is insistent on what he wants? No, he cannot change the situation. Rather, the matter may become more severe. Perhaps this answer, which was directed to the one who asked, will be taken by the questioner as a weapon against this manager to tarnish his reputation and cause confusion. And I am not intending a specific person. The questioner is to be thanked for his question, but I mean in general that it is not befitting for the mufti to issue a fatwa in such matters because they do not serve the interest at all. Who takes on the question? If he wants to ask, from whom? The head or the manager who can change it. But if one individual from this group asks, and it is said: This is haram, or not permissible, this is betrayal, and the salary is haram, and so on, what is the benefit? There is no benefit. In reality, there is no benefit. For this reason, I thank my young brothers who find a contradiction in their jobs and then ask about it. We thank them, but I do not see that they should be answered because that does not serve the interest. Then I also advise those in charge of the work to fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic and to proceed according to what has been prescribed for them from above. And if they see the interest lies in the opposite, let them submit a report and advice to those above them to adjust the situation, unless they are enabled to do so and it is said: You are trusted and you are free in what you see of directing and changing the specializations of employees. That is another matter. Then, regarding such questions, I also love for my young brothers who are concerned that I love for the question to be in secret between them and the responsible parties, because we do not like for faults to spread in work departments and institutions. Yes, you are from Unaizah, please.
The questioner : Can it happen, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : If I told you the answer to this question, this is the answer: It is not possible.