106 businesses fined for having foreign cashiers, 14 for not closing on time

A 106 businesses have been fined for having foreign cashiers while 14 businesses have been fined for failing to close on time.

Deputy Minister of the Economic Ministry, Adam Thaufeeq told Sun Media today that while the ministry has inspected 737 businesses in Malé City, 106 businesses had foreign cashiers. And that they have been fined.

And out of the 737, 14 businesses were noted as they were open passed business hours and have been fined.

Businesses that fail to abide that law are usually fined MVR 2000 and advised to correct it.

Deputy Minister Thaufeeq said that all the shops in Malé have not been inspected yet and they would be in the future.

Since the Government inspections are during the day, cafés and restaurants have started using local cashiers during the day and foreign cashiers during the night.

The Deputy Minister said that they won’t be so forgiving unlike before and would cancel their business permits if things come to that.

He said that while the businesses in Malé are being inspected, the businesses in the atolls would also be inspected through the Councils.

Department of Immigration and Emigration has ordered that foreign photographers and cashiers be dismissed before 7 June.