Comments on: Sharia Employment Law http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/shria-employment-law/ Exclusively Employment Law Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Usefully Employed http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/shria-employment-law/#comment-860 Usefully Employed Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:54:57 +0000 http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/shria-employment-law/#comment-860 I think there's some advancement and honing we still have to do at home - but taking one Muslim country at random, the ever news-hungry Iran, they have: - An equivalent of our s1 statements of terms & conditions - A payout of one month's pay per year of service on ANY dismissal, and compulsory reinstatement if the dismissal is unfair (and they know how to do compulsory) - A whacking big holiday entitlement of 64 days per annum inc. public hols - Three months maternity leave, including preservation of continuity of service - Compulsory 44% pay premiums on any overtime over 44 hours per week. The key thing you mustn't ever do with Sharia is confuse it with lawlessness - it has plenty of law (many in the West would say too much), and enthusiastic interventionism in private business. In comparison, our free market capitalist model can - and to many Muslims no doubt does - look completely disinterested in employee welfare. I think there’s some advancement and honing we still have to do at home - but taking one Muslim country at random, the ever news-hungry Iran, they have:

- An equivalent of our s1 statements of terms & conditions
- A payout of one month’s pay per year of service on ANY dismissal, and compulsory reinstatement if the dismissal is unfair (and they know how to do compulsory)
- A whacking big holiday entitlement of 64 days per annum inc. public hols
- Three months maternity leave, including preservation of continuity of service
- Compulsory 44% pay premiums on any overtime over 44 hours per week.

The key thing you mustn’t ever do with Sharia is confuse it with lawlessness - it has plenty of law (many in the West would say too much), and enthusiastic interventionism in private business. In comparison, our free market capitalist model can - and to many Muslims no doubt does - look completely disinterested in employee welfare.

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