Q. Our Currency Exchange company employs an Israeli resident living in Israel. Can he on the second day Yom Tov contact our non-Jewish clients in Canada? If yes, is he also allowed to contact them when Yom Tov has ended in his location, but here it still the first day Yom Tov?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it would depend how that worker is being remunerated for his work. If he is paid a salary, he is then working for the Jewish company and his work is being done on Yom Tov as an agent in their behalf. (This being similar to the prohibited Gentile's work done for an Yisroel (See Shulchan Aruch O.H. 244.) However, if he works for commission, it would be permitted since he is basically working for himself.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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