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<\/a><\/p>\nWith many States and Provinces de-regulating the salon industry, a very scary scenario is emerging.\u00a0 There are many “self made” stylists out there trying to find jobs, and what is more scary is the fact that many salons are hiring them – with no license and no certificate of qualification from either their association or a reputable cosmetology school to prove that they are capable of performing services on a client to a certain standard and without causing harm to the client.<\/p>\n
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Sadly, last week I heard of a salon who encouraged a student to leave school well before completing her training to go and work for them\u00a0 as a fully qualified stylist.<\/p>\n
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My take on this is that the people who feel that our industry does not need certain standards should be sentenced to having their hair and beauty services performed by an untrained\u00a0 person for the rest of their life!!\u00a0 That would soon turn things around.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apart from all of that, as a salon owner, you need to be protected from lawsuits resulting from injury due to the incorrect performance of services by a member of your team.\u00a0 This is called malpractice insurance which should be carried by any business in our industry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At a meeting of our local association last week I was shocked to hear that many salons are now choosing not to take this insurance because of the cost.\u00a0 One of the arguments was – “It would take so long to go to court that the hair would be grown back, and how much would it cost anyway?\u00a0 $5,000 or $6000.”\u00a0 Think again!\u00a0 The way lawsuits go nowadays it would put a salon out of business.\u00a0 There are photographs that would go into evidence, not to mention, pain and suffering, loss of income\u00a0 and on it would go.\u00a0 We all know that lawyers, who often take these types of cases on a contingency basis, would go for a high amount.\u00a0 It probably would not go to court as most of these cases are settled in a mediation hearing, however by the time the case is settled and the salon’s lawyer is paid, the business would probably be looking at around $100,000 costs.\u00a0 How many can afford that?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That is what malpractice insurance is for.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 many insurance companies want to know what the qualifications and licensing of the people they insure are.\u00a0 We all know that insurance companies love to find a loophole that would allow the policy to be null and void, and having the person who performed the service not be fully trained and qualified to do the job would certainly be a huge loophole.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So the moral of this story is that as a salon owner it is your duty to your clients, your team and yourself to make sure that you only hire people who are fully qualified, and can prove so, to do the job.\u00a0 Also, get involved with your association to help raise the bar again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let’s stop this slide in the standards of our industry now.\u00a0 We are a profession. We work hard and have pride in what we do.\u00a0 We need to be recognized as such, and proudly showing a license or a certificate of qualification sends a very clear message to that effect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With many States and Provinces de-regulating the salon industry, a very scary scenario is emerging.\u00a0 There are many “self made” stylists out there trying to find jobs, and what is more scary is the fact that many salons are hiring them – with no license and no certificate of qualification from either their association … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,70,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-legal","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Marion Shaw is a salon business coach and consultant with\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Salon Biz Essentials<\/a>\u00a0and owner of Busy Bus Publications.\u00a0<\/em>Also check\u00a0<\/em>her out on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n