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<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Haven\u2019t many of us worked so hard to make our industry more professional, higher status and a profession to be proud of? Listening to a salon owner this week talking of his experiences in a interviewing potential new team member, it makes you wonder where we are going wrong.<\/p>\nWith a great \u201cIdeal Stylist\u201d description an ad was placed for a position as stylist in a great salon. The whole team are technically extremely competent, have a great image, give wonderful customer service and are constantly attending educational sessions to ensure that they are always on top of what\u2019s going on in their industry and their business. So to hear the owner speaking out about his experiences was quite shocking, to say the least.\u00a0 Is this happening to you?<\/p>\n
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- No professional resume, no portfolio, no references.<\/li>\n
- For those who did rate an interview, showing up for the appointment late.<\/li>\n
- Showing up for the appointment poorly dressed.<\/li>\n
- Showing up for the interview with bad hair and no make up.<\/li>\n
- Having no conversational skills.<\/li>\n
- Being unable to answer simple questions about goals and direction for their career.<\/li>\n
- No license or proof of qualifications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Worse still, are some of the stories the stylists tell of the pay scales and methods of payment that they are receiving.<\/p>\n
Salons who pay commission only, with no guarantee. This is strictly illegal.\u00a0 There were stories of stylists who were in the salon all week, only did 2 haircuts and earned about $50 for the week. Others who were paid in cash with no paperwork and no deductions. Several salons paid only a minimum amount on a check \u2013 ensuring that this amount was just under the level that deductions would begin and paid the rest in cash. In other words, many salons, flying well under the radar of the government.<\/p>\n
Knowing that these salons are out there, and they are usually the ones advertising $10 haircuts, makes it really difficult for the legitimate salons who are doing everything legally, paying their taxes, paying their employees correctly, making accurate deductions and remitting on time and all of those time consuming, labor intensive and highly expensive things that should be done, to make a profit and be successful.<\/p>\n
What would you do if you were being told about these illegal and unfair practices?<\/p>\n
Bravo to our salon owner who I talked to. As all of these interviewees were happy to give him the name of the salons where they were previously \u201cemployed\u201d. He is now going to report them to the appropriate revenue agency. As business owners who uphold the labor and taxation laws, any time you find out about salons who are not being honest with their employees or the government, please report them, it\u2019s the only way that we will weed out those who are making our industry look unprofessional and put everyone on a level playing field.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Marion Shaw is a salon business coach and consultant with\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a>Salon Biz Essentials<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and owner of Busy Bus Publications.\u00a0Also check\u00a0her out on\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and you can read more of her blogs at\u00a0www.mariongshaw.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0Haven\u2019t many of us worked so hard to make our industry more professional, higher status and a profession to be proud of? Listening to a salon owner this week talking of his experiences in a interviewing potential new team member, it makes you wonder where we are going wrong. With a great … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,70,341,59,288,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-legal","category-salonbizessentials","category-salons-2","category-stylists-2","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\/4067","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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