Saudi Arabia’s labour ministry has shut down six lingerie shops in the capital Riyadh for failing to employ local women...“All shops have been given 14 days to regularise their situations and avoid being shut down,” he said. However, salesmen and shop owners have charged that the ministry should allow them more time to implement its decisions after the Eid rush...Saudi Arabia has launched a massive drive to reform the labour market to boost the chances of its citizens, particularly women, to find jobs and to reduce reliance on foreign labour. However, the drive to employ women has been resisted by conservatives who saw it as a blatant transgression of deep-rooted traditions and social values...Most expatriate salesmen are opposed to the employment of Saudi saleswomen and have been driving them away through their negative attitudes...[and] push[ing] several Saudi women to quit their jobs...