September 6, 2025

Publication relating to transparency notifications

  REGULATED INFORMATION Publication relating to transparency notifications Mont-Saint-Guibert (Belgium), September 5, 2025, 10:30 pm CET / 4:30 pm ET – In accordance with article 14 of the Act of 2

Dubai: Around two years ago, a Subway fast food restaurant in the United Arab Emirates inadvertently caused a national scandal with a job advertisement. The ad called on Emiratis to work for Subway and, yes, make sandwiches. Emiratis considered the job offer an “insult,” “a mockery,” and “an attack on locals,” leading UAE prosecutors to announce an investigation into what they called the “contentious content.”

According to Deutsche Welle, the December 2022 advertisement was actually placed by a large Dubai-based company, the Kamal Osman Jamjoom Group, which was only trying to comply with new UAE rules about employing a certain percentage of Emiratis. The Su…