Paying an Extra Month’s Salary on Dismissing a Teacher

Question

Zayd had been employed in an Arabic madrasa for two years. At the time of the long vacation, in blessed Ramadan, he said to the rector: “I am unable to collect donations. Whatever decision there is about me, please make it known.” The rector said: “You are to stay here in the madrasa for some days of blessed Ramadan. I will go in your place.” So Zayd came back from the said house and stayed in the madrasa until the rector’s return, and then, with the rector’s permission, went home.

Answer

The salary up to the time when the rector informed him is undoubtedly due. Regarding the whole month of Shawwal the details are as follows: if the madrasa has some fixed regulation, or some agreement was made with Zayd about this (for example: whenever Zayd wishes he may leave the job, and whenever the rector wishes he may remove him, and at that point the arrangement ends and…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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