Pink Lime Salon Calgary
Pink Lime Salon & Spa Calgary, Bassem Jawahri Stealing pay, not paying wages, bounced checks, dead rats, unlicensed staff, unsanitary premise, slimy despicable boss

This is a tip to warn customers and potential employees of Pink Lime Salon (918B 5 Avenue SW Calgary AB) that the manager, Bassem Jawahri, is not adhering to Alberta Employment Standards regulations, hires unlicensed massage therapists, and also has unsanitary premises.

The salon deliberately subtracts earnings from its employees unlawfully or gives cheques that are non-sufficient quite frequently. My wife worked there since February of 2009 and was laid off on June 3rd as the manager said that he couldn't afford to pay her anymore. In fact according to Employment Standards, he had to give written notice with justifiable cause but instead he told me over the telephone. Since she started working there he deducted money from her pay cheque all but one time. We usually had to go back in to contest why it was he would take off a few hundred dollars from her hard earned money. She has not been paid for 2 months and Mr. Jawahri has been pulling stall tactics whenever we tried to redeem those funds. Some of what he has tried includes:

1. Leaving to Edmonton the day he was supposed to give the funds (June 15th).
2. Telling us the cheque is in the mail (June 15th).
3. Claiming illness the week before.
4. Passing the buck to his accountant Phylis McLaren of PM Computer Accounting based in Cranbrook, BC.
5. Saying he never received my wife's SIN but we have given it twice.

There is also allegation that some of the massage therapists do not have proper requirements to practice. Needless to say, this is harmful to customer well being and also against the law. At the rate of $110 an hour, where is this money going to if the "therapists" are only getting paid $15/hour? (This is based off an ex-employee who was a registered masseuse).

While my wife was working there she was told that there was a dead rat underneath the refrigerator. This was verified by other employees of Pink Lime who no longer work there anymore (due to the unruly practices of Pink Lime Salon). The dead rodent in itself should warrant a survey of the salon for sanitary reasons.

Pink Lime Salon also has locations in Edmonton and Vancouver so I suggest making this story nation wide.

Pinkslime
calgary, Alberta
Canada