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Saudi Arabia - Commission for Promotion of Virtue & Prevention of Vice

Warning that Women Job Interviews Must Have Male Guardian Present

 

22 April 2009

 

HAIL - The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as the Hai'a, has warned private businesses in Hail against interviewing female job applicants without a male guardian (or Mahram) being physically present.

A newly established company in Hail said that all its interviews of female applicants for jobs in debt collection and marketing were done last week in the presence of the male guardians, brothers or fathers of the women, and Hai'a officers.

The company did not allow women to enter the premises without a male guardian, said a spokesman of the company.

The interviews were conducted in preparation to open a women-only section so as to support the cause of creating jobs for women, the spokesman said.

However, he added that the Hai'a advised the company to deploy female interviewers in the future.

By Miteb Al-Awad

© The Saudi Gazette 2009 





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