A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported yesterday.
“One of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family,” the hardline Kayhan daily reported.
The paper did not mention the name of the company but the reformist Etemad newspaper said that the firm is the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company, which covers Iran’s giant gas and petrochemical facilities on the shores of the Gulf.
“Unfortunately some of our colleagues did not fulfil their commitments and are still single,” Etemad quoted the company’s directive as saying.
“As being married is one of the criteria of employment, we are announcing for the last time that all the female and male colleagues have until 21 September to go ahead with this important and moral religious duty.”
It’s a good thing some of us live in countries that aren’t controlled by big oil.
to the posters comment…
uh, yeah, right.
So they WANT their employees to be miserable….
(Glad my wife doesn’t read this blog)
Will Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company recognize same-sex marriage ?
I felt just as violated having to sign up for United Way. That happened with two different employers, in the USA, not oil.
Sad thing is, in both places, there were several women I would have been glad to have had to marry.
I guess I would be getting fired.
“It’s a good thing some of us live in countries that aren’t controlled by big oil.” What does this have to do with Big Oil?
According to the CIA World Factbook, Iran’s women are having an average of 1.71 children each, and young people are migrating. The population is still growing slightly, probably due to increasing life expectancy. This is similar to Europe i.e. a recipe for an aging population, not what the Demographic Jihad needs…
#6, jetfire, “What does this have to do with Big Oil?”
The firm is the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company, which covers Iran’s giant gas and petrochemical facilities on the shores of the Gulf.
Hope you don’t work for ExxonMobil. They just dumped the retail gasoline biz today and are closing stations. Married or not.
Just like Miracle Griow fireing people for smoking. Corps think they own you.
How does a decree like this work in a country that practices polygamy? I imagine even Iranians have an equal number of men and women so some men will be left without a partner.
They stone adultresses to death there so they better be careful who they marry. Sounds like another Zionist plot to make Muslim nations look fascistic and stupid.
What everybody seems to have missed in this piece is that it was for the “security” personal of the firm. Mind that this “security” personal are also in charge of spying on normal personal and also fighting “immoral” activities within the company, something like what the religious militia force does in the streets of Iran.
Something I learned from my 90-year-old aunt: In the 1940s in most places in the USA a female teacher was not allowed to be married. Because once they got married, they should be at home having babies, doncha know. So some got married secretly to keep their jobs — they had to live in a nearby town, not the town they taught in. With the World War II shortage of manpower some of the larger cities abolished this rule simply to get the number of teachers they needed, and then the rest of America followed. Seems very odd to us today but not all that long ago, really.