Employer and Employee Obligations in Islam: A Comparative Study with Constitutional Provisions of Pakistan

Abstract

Labour market of Muslim world including Pakistan is characterized with lower level of productivity resulting from job dissatisfaction, and undisciplined work environment. This study explores the solution to these problems from Islamic knowledge base, by identifying the gap between the Islamic provisions of employer and employee obligations, and the Constitutional provisions of Pakistan. The article compares Islamic perspective of employer and employee obligations with constitutional provisions of Pakistan. The Islamic perspective has been extracted from a deep and thorough review of Quran and Hadith. The Constitutional provisions have been sorted out from the Constitution of Pakistan 1973, and from important labour laws. The paper concludes that there are sufficient ways to improve the Constitutional provisions of Pakistan in light of Islamic perspective which will improve the employer and employee obligations; ultimately there will be improvement in the productivity of labour market. The paper offers some suggestions for improvement of constitutional provisions.

Keywords

• employee
• employer
• obligations
• islamic perspective