Salam,
This question is very important to me and has been troubling me for quiet a while. I’m going to be purchasing a business, under UK Law as a business owner you have to pay a small contribution into your employees pension. What I aim to do is to switch the current employees (non Muslims) to a sharia compliant pension. However if I fail to switch them to a sharia compliant one be it legally or they legally protest. However I’ve got two questions.
Legally am I able to change their scheme to a sharia compliant pension or do I need to explicitly seek their permission to do so as their employer ( question for one of the IFG lawyers or business owners @ibrahimkhan )
Second one is more of a fatwa question: if I fail to switch them to a sharia compliant pension scheme am I sinful for paying into their standard pension considering it’s a legal requirement to do so in the UK? And the alternative is that unless all my employees are Muslim or they agree that to the switch then I cannot start any business in the uk that employe non Muslims? ( question for @Mufti_Billal @Mufti_Faraz_Adam )
If the mufti’s are able to answer both questions then that’s fabulous.
Jzk in advance brothers.