25% salary for your stay-at-home wife in UAE, it is like a pay hike: A new trend?
Dubai: If you’re a working married man, how would you like it if your stay-at-home spouse were to get a salary equivalent to 25% of your pay? And yes, that’s in addition to your own salary. In reality, it’s like a pay raise. Aries, a UAE-based marine engineering services firm, is doing just that — a 25% pay raise, but directly credited to the wife of each employee who qualifies in the scheme (not offered to newcomers). The gesture is unique. It's a token recognition for the role stay-at-home parents play, which includes an endless amount of demands and to-dos — as a tutor, negotiat...