An employee’s share in the growth of a business

Question

Question: In the meantime, the owners of the said firm started, in the name of their children, a new firm in another shop — a wholesale business in PVC (a kind of rubber) footwear. Its partners are separate, its capital separate, its premises separate and its business separate, and the business of the earlier firm suffered no decrease — on the contrary, it kept growing year by year. The new firm’s business also ran very briskly in the other shop; its employees — workers and a clerk (one who keeps the accounts)

Answer

If the work increases, the employee should make an agreement: “Let my salary be increased by such-and-such an amount from now on, then I will work; otherwise I resign.” Increasing the employee’s salary by that much because of the shop’s growth is not wajib by virtue of the contract; however, out of gratitude and in recompense for the right of his services, it ought to be…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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