Q: We acquired a property upon which the tenant has a six year lease on terms that fall far short of market related rentals. Are we obliged to renew the lease for the renewal period.
It should also be remembered that the lease was irregularly concluded to start with and as already existing shareholders our rights were infringed upon by the person concluding the lease.
Q: I have a tenant who is several months in arrears. In order to get the tenant out and avoid further losses, I tell the tenant that if you find another premises and move out within a month, I will pay you R5000. Is such an agreement permissible?
Q: Person A runs a business for person B. There are some customers who buy on credit. Person A gets a straight monthly salary only. 2 customers haven't paid for 4 months now, so person A was asked to leave, and person A had to pay person B, the owner, the value not paid by the 2 customers.
Is this correct? Please explain
Q: If a person was working for a company for more than a year. In terms of the shariah, what is the minimum notice period or how long of a notice period does one need to give to a company if he decided to resign from that company?
Q: I have a contract with a teacher. She said that she will teach me 5 days a week (20 days in a month) for 1 hour on video call and I have to give her 160 riyals. But she taught me only 7 days in the month and less than half hour, not video call just sending voice recording on WhatsApp.
Can I give her less money, only 100 riyal for 7 days. She is asking 160 riyal claiming that the days I did not teach you, you can revise what I thaught you before.
Q: If it is merely suspected that a tenant buys and sells stolen goods, is it incumbent on the landlord to terminate that tenant’s tenancy?
Q: I worked for a certain company for 9 months. My boss once came to me, started swearing me and chased me from the shop. I opened a case against him and we went to court. When he chased me away, he owed me wages for 3 days. Yesterday was my CCMA case and the court ruled that he now has to pay me R5500. Is it permissible for me to accept this money?
Q: I have a part time maid working at my house. I have fixed a monthly salary with her agreement. I don't cut her pay if she takes off if she is sick or if I don't call her for a day or two. But if she travels for 2 months to meet her family, am I obliged to pay her for those months or not, we don't have any contract and she travels on her own expenses. Are there any other rules of shariah related to part time help that we should know of? She attends to three different homes daily.
Q: I used to work in my uncle's school as finance manager 8 years ago. I was basically all in all in that school. I had teachers in that school on
contract mentioning three months job termination period. School was in loss and I had to sell the school, all teachers lost job because new owner didn't hire them. I could pay only one month notice period and current month salary to the contract holder teachers. The teachers without renewed contract or teachers passing probation period but without new contract got only current month salary. Now I feel I should have paid complete three months notice period but I didn't have funds at that time. Now I am in a position to pay them but I lost their contact numbers plus I don't remember the actual amount of the different teachers. At that time what I got from the sale, I paid all to the staff and one PDC cheque I gave to my uncle and went back to my city to restart my career. What should I do?