The charitable organisation ceased operation, yet the employees are still receiving salaries
Question

                For three years I have been working for an institute belonging to an organisation that does charitable activities and investment activities, but for some reason work has almost stopped completely for several months. The CEO of the organisation and his team are fully aware of that, yet despite that we are still receiving our salaries, me and my colleagues in the organisation, with the aim of keeping the team together. Is there any doubt about the money we have received? Because part of the organisation’s money is for charitable purposes. Please note that I need this work for my family, and the organisation is aware of the cessation of work, but they are still trying hard to reactivate it, and nevertheless they are still giving us salaries. Should I give up this job, even though I cannot find any other work and I am not good at anything else?
Praise be to Allah.
	The ruling on your work for this organisation is based on the 
	attitude of the administration towards the cessation of work, and on knowing 
	the nature of the charitable work that the organisation does.

	If the administration is trying to overcome the problem that 
	led to cessation of work, and it thinks that it is in the organisation’s 
	best interests to keep the team until the work can resume, then this is 
	valid reasoning, because keeping the team is a genuine interest for the 
	organisation, and letting them go then bringing in new employees will have 
	an adverse impact on the smooth operation and efficiency of the work, and it 
	will make the employees not want to work in that organisation, because they 
	will be worried about the lack of job stability. In this case, there is 
	nothing wrong with the salary that you receive.

	But if the administration is not keen to resume work and is 
	not fulfilling the trust that it has been given in such a manner that would 
	absolve it of blame, then undoubtedly what they are doing is wrong and is 
	haraam, because it is a betrayal of the trust that they were given.

	With regard to your salary in this case, it is essential to 
	know the nature of the charitable activities of the organisation and the 
	intention of donors who give money to it. If their intervention is to do 
	charitable acts of various types, in a general sense, such as helping the 
	needy and the sick and so on, then if you are in need of that work because 
	you cannot find anything else, as you stated in your question, and you are 
	in need of your salary, then there is nothing wrong with the salary that you 
	are receiving, in sha Allah, because it could be regarded as a type of help 
	from the organisation to you, and it comes under the heading of the 
	charitable activities of the organisation and is in harmony with the 
	intention of the donors.

	But if the charitable activities of the organisation are 
	restricted to some specific activities such as helping orphans or the 
	elderly and the like, namely groups among whom you are not included, then 
	our advice to you is to look seriously for another job. But in this case we 
	hope that there is no blame on you for taking the salary until you are able 
	to find another job, because in this case you are like one who has no choice 
	but to do that, because you have made yourself available and given the time 
	that you agreed in your contract with the organisation to give. We advise 
	you to try to fill your work hours with charitable acts that are like the 
	organisation’s activities that have ceased, or are similar to them, as much 
	as is possible.

	And Allah knows best.