Lingerie shops in Saudi Arabia get female only deadline

Dubai: Lingerie outlets and other shops selling women’s accessories in Saudi Arabia have been instructed to ensure they are fully staffed by women and have no male employees on their rosters.

The directive, that has come with a mid-August deadline, stems from a new legislation, that bars men from manning such shops.

Any store found employing male workers beyond that date, likely either August 18-19, will be closed down, local media quoted Labour Ministry Undersecretary Fahd Al-Takhayyufi as saying.

Establishments that do not cooperate with the ministry will be penalised, Al-Takhayyufi said.

According to him, recent inspections to check if installations were complying with the legislation detective several anomalies.

He said inspections to guarantee that all lingerie shops are staffed by women exposed several violations, including employment of non-Saudi workers overstaying their visas.

The goal of implementing the women-only directive is not only aimed at Saudising the sector, but it is also part of a move to provide a safe environment for women to work in the country, he said.

PTI

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Were bowling shoes, snow ski suits or lingerie on your tax-free holiday list?

CLEARWATER – 

The state’s tax-free holiday weekend was meant to help parents wallet’s before the start of the school year, but there were a few bizarre items left off — and put on — this year’s list of items.

A lot of parents were buying what one might expect: “Pencils,” Jennifer Ransford said. “Crayons, markers, glue, scissors,” Char Leininger added.

But the list of tax exempt items was a little outside of the box of your basic back-to-school needs.

If you need baby blankets, bowling shoes, snow ski suits, fishing and hunting vests, diapers or lingerie, you’re in luck. If you need a stapler, sorry about your luck.

Ransford also thought printer paper being taxed was “kind of silly since a lot of things are done on computers nowadays.”

Though rain boots or working gloves may not have made everyone’s school needs list, at least the items most people did need were on the list. “There’s nothing that I need to get that’s not exempt I don’t think,” Tiffany Corbett said.

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