hi i would really appricate some advice from any salon owners out there who employ apprentices aged 19 and above,
i work in a salon where one of the girls is doing an n.v.q level 2 in hairdressing shes already completed her n.v.q level 1 , at the time she wasnt employed through the salon she was on a placement to do the her n.v.q level 1(she was being paid £50 p.w through the training company), and after it was completed because she was doing good she was employed fully by the salon instead of being on a placement .. so this is the difficult part she started her level 1 at 18 and now shes 19 shes on her level 2 with a company called isa, my salon is in wales i dont know if england scotland and ireland have this training company but isa are funded by the w.a.g which stands for welsh assembly goverment , so basically the trainee is funded by this w.a.g to do her training BUT now shes turned 19 i phoned the national minimum wage helpline and because shes 19 they said u have to pay her the lower n.m.w even though she is still an apprentice if she was 19 and hadnt been working there for a year she would be excluded from this but shes been working in my salon for 2 years now, the thing is its only a small out of town salon and we work roughly 38 hours a week which means she would have to be paid around £175 and shes only shampooing and doing very basic hairdressing shes not onto colouring and cutting yet and i cant afford to pay this out as shes only a trainee, so ive had to cut her hours back, but the thing is also this isa training she is with advised me to phone acas as she doesnt think this is right as she said no one would employ trainees if they had to be paid £175 a week
im rather confused so any advice would be grateful does any other salon owners have to pay the minimum wage to there trainnees over 19 ??
sorry if this is a bit long winded but hope u get the jist of it
please help :cry:
i work in a salon where one of the girls is doing an n.v.q level 2 in hairdressing shes already completed her n.v.q level 1 , at the time she wasnt employed through the salon she was on a placement to do the her n.v.q level 1(she was being paid £50 p.w through the training company), and after it was completed because she was doing good she was employed fully by the salon instead of being on a placement .. so this is the difficult part she started her level 1 at 18 and now shes 19 shes on her level 2 with a company called isa, my salon is in wales i dont know if england scotland and ireland have this training company but isa are funded by the w.a.g which stands for welsh assembly goverment , so basically the trainee is funded by this w.a.g to do her training BUT now shes turned 19 i phoned the national minimum wage helpline and because shes 19 they said u have to pay her the lower n.m.w even though she is still an apprentice if she was 19 and hadnt been working there for a year she would be excluded from this but shes been working in my salon for 2 years now, the thing is its only a small out of town salon and we work roughly 38 hours a week which means she would have to be paid around £175 and shes only shampooing and doing very basic hairdressing shes not onto colouring and cutting yet and i cant afford to pay this out as shes only a trainee, so ive had to cut her hours back, but the thing is also this isa training she is with advised me to phone acas as she doesnt think this is right as she said no one would employ trainees if they had to be paid £175 a week
im rather confused so any advice would be grateful does any other salon owners have to pay the minimum wage to there trainnees over 19 ??
sorry if this is a bit long winded but hope u get the jist of it
please help :cry:
