Ruling on not letting drivers pray in congregation

 What these people should do, who have people working for
them in their houses, is to enable them to pray in congregation, because of
the great reward and goodness that that will bring. This is a kind of
cooperating in righteousness and piety. Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning):

“Help you one another in Al-Birr
and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another
in sin and transgression”

[al-Maa’idah 5:5]

 It is not permissible for them to prevent them from praying
in congregation, because praying in congregation is a shar’i obligation, and
a shar’i obligation exempts one from work, because obedience to Allaah and
His Messenger takes precedence over obedience to any human being. But if
this worker is prevented from praying in congregation and he needs his job,
then he is excused in this case, because he is being prevented and this is
not his choice, rather if he were to leave his work that would cause trouble
for him.