Overview
- Customs officers inspected 52 hair and beauty salons on the weekend, checking 36 in Thüringen and 16 in Südwestsachsen and interviewing 147 employees during the operation.
- Authorities found irregularities in 37 salons, including 11 cases of minimum-wage breaches and five cases of undeclared work involving foreign workers.
- The Zoll identified seven businesses that had not paid social-security contributions and recorded one case of social-benefit misuse in each region.
- Investigators opened a formal probe at a nail studio in Ilmenau on suspicion of breaches of immigration rules, and officials are now reviewing business records.
- The Hauptzollamt Erfurt said it will share data with the Deutsche Rentenversicherung and other agencies as it pursues administrative and criminal steps to recover unpaid wages and contributions.