KOTA BARU: The purpose of the RM100 fine imposed by the Kota Baru Municipal Council (MPKB) on a female hair salon owner allowing her female employee to cut the hair of a male customer, is to educate her.
MPKB's president Rosnazli Amin said the case should not even be an issue that needed to be highlighted.
"The by-laws to salon operators have existed a long time ago… more than 30 years and the majority of them understand it.
"We (MPKB) issued the operator with a fine as she did not obey the regulations and she also has accepted it," he said when contacted.
Rosnazli also defended the action taken by his enforcement officers on the case.
"Whoever commits an offence or breaches the law, must face the music. It is more to educate them," he added.
Rosnazli hopes certain quarters will not take advantage of the situation by making it a political issue.
He was commenting on NST's report that a female hair salon owner was fined RM100 by MPKB for allowing her female worker to cut the hair of a male customer.
The incident happened at the owner's premises located in the town area last week.
This comes about a month after a boutique owner was fined by the council for wearing shorts in her workplace.
Kelantan Chinese Association Federation president Datuk Oie Poh Choon said the salon owner paid her fine to MPKB four days ago.
He said he had accompanied the woman to MPKB's office to settle her fine and she also admitted to committing the offence.
He said the MPKB's by-law under the business license guidelines stated that non-Muslim female hairdressers were not allowed to offer haircut services to any Muslim of the opposite sex.
He hoped that MPKB would brief salon owners on its existing laws as many seemed to have forgotten them.
It is learnt that the female worker of the salon had cut the hair of the male customer who went to the salon with his family members.
The premise was issued with the compound during an operation by MPKB's enforcement officers last week.
Last month, Oie also helped the businesswoman who was fined for wearing shorts in her boutique.
The woman's adoptive father came forward to settle the fine.