Work hazards are present in most work environments. Hence, the interest of health and safety is of concern to the employee, employer, government and health related sectors. Employees are concerned because safety risks could render them victimized and endanger their health. Employers also heed the importance of prevention at work if not out of a moral duty, it would be because work accidents pose an economic burden and forces them to lose workforce. Government and health related sectors have an interest in accidents arising at work because it would eventually affect the general productivity.
There exists a set of regulations to which the companies and institutions have abided by, but there remains an inevitable amount of risk posed at work. …show more content…
As Lemos (2015) demonstrates it, employers are not as concerned about their workers' safety as much as they would not want the endangerment of this safety to impede the flow of work. The civil law clearly protects and compensates for damage done at the workplace according to regulations to which the employer is bound to. However, if the compensation is left for the employer to be responsible of, inequality between companies and their subsequent compensation moralities arise. Not to mention that the employer is responsible for providing a safe environment of work and this is what the civil law cannot monitor for each …show more content…
A victim interest should be maintained and the immanent right to compensation looked upon. These should not be altered by the interest of the liable parties trying to reduce the risk of loss rooted in the compensatory burden. Nevertheless, researchers have searched about the Islamic shari’ah law of compensation, and how it is implemented. The Islamic shari’ah highly values work effort and the honor of workers it also provides a clear framework for protecting human rights of workers, this is linked directly to the right for a fair wage and the right to claim payment for work accident and losses . It is mentioned in qura’an and hadith the importance of work stating that it is considered a form of worship. Islam does not honor laziness but rewards effort. A hadith shows many verses about the significance of productive work. Furthermore, Islamic Shari’ah does not undervalue the manual labor compared to any other type of work (Hascall, 2014 ). According to Hascall (2014), All are considered workers: teachers, government officials, doctors, laborers and household servants are alike. It is required by Islam that employers pay their workers fairly according to their work and effort. Employees cannot be expected to work without compensation, and that compensation must be just and according to the skill of the worker and the task assigned. Assuring that workers have adequate pay, leisure, healthcare,
There exists a set of regulations to which the companies and institutions have abided by, but there remains an inevitable amount of risk posed at work. …show more content…
As Lemos (2015) demonstrates it, employers are not as concerned about their workers' safety as much as they would not want the endangerment of this safety to impede the flow of work. The civil law clearly protects and compensates for damage done at the workplace according to regulations to which the employer is bound to. However, if the compensation is left for the employer to be responsible of, inequality between companies and their subsequent compensation moralities arise. Not to mention that the employer is responsible for providing a safe environment of work and this is what the civil law cannot monitor for each …show more content…
A victim interest should be maintained and the immanent right to compensation looked upon. These should not be altered by the interest of the liable parties trying to reduce the risk of loss rooted in the compensatory burden. Nevertheless, researchers have searched about the Islamic shari’ah law of compensation, and how it is implemented. The Islamic shari’ah highly values work effort and the honor of workers it also provides a clear framework for protecting human rights of workers, this is linked directly to the right for a fair wage and the right to claim payment for work accident and losses . It is mentioned in qura’an and hadith the importance of work stating that it is considered a form of worship. Islam does not honor laziness but rewards effort. A hadith shows many verses about the significance of productive work. Furthermore, Islamic Shari’ah does not undervalue the manual labor compared to any other type of work (Hascall, 2014 ). According to Hascall (2014), All are considered workers: teachers, government officials, doctors, laborers and household servants are alike. It is required by Islam that employers pay their workers fairly according to their work and effort. Employees cannot be expected to work without compensation, and that compensation must be just and according to the skill of the worker and the task assigned. Assuring that workers have adequate pay, leisure, healthcare,