Prosecutors have sent out a strict warning to owners of women’s salons and spas against flouting laws and making women specialists work as masseuses in male massage parlours.
It is against the UAE Labour Law to make women, who are hired to work as hairstylists, manicurists, and pedicurists or nail specialists in ladies’ salons and spas, to work as masseuses in massage parlours for men, warned Senior Chief Prosecutor Ali Humaid Bin Khatem, Head of the Naturalisation and Residency Prosecution (NRP).
“This is a new criminal technique that law enforcement officers and labour inspectors have discovered recently during surprise raids to different ladies’ spas and salons. When salon specialists are hired to work in salons, then that’s where they should work… if they are found to be massaging males in massage parlours, then that’s a clear violation of ministerial resolution No 52 of 1989. It will still be deemed a crime even if the salon and the massage parlour belong to the same owner,” Bin Khatem said on Tuesday.
His comments came following what he described as two unprecedented and first-of-their-kind criminal cases in which the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Misdemeanours Court fined two owners of different salons Dh30,000 each for committing the aforementioned crime.
