Just see how everyone do it in different states? Thank you
How do you get the technicians to come on time and leave when we close? Since they are contractors? Or you pay the technicians w2? ThanksIn the NSS salons, techs are paid by comission
How do you get the technicians to come on time and leave when we close? Since they are contractors? Or you pay the technicians w2? Thanks
This is what happening in texas ,that's why I want to make sure. I'm 100% sure all asian nail shops do this to the techs (pays 1099 but make techs come and leave at owner's expense). I wonder no one file a complain to department of labor.
Thinking opening a salon but want to go the right ways. And I do feel bad for the techs if I'm doing the way how all texas nail shops is doing.
If you want to complain about salon owners cutting corners or not following the correct rules, then they should be referred to as Non Standard Salons or NSS.
There are plenty of salon owners who break the rules and plenty of salon owners who follow them but their nationality is irrelevant.
In 1992, I turned my techs loose as independent contractors in one of my salons, thinking I would save $ in payroll taxes, according to my tax advisor. (Hmmm? Why didn’t he do that with HIS office staff?)
It was a mess. Scheduling was random and no one could rely on the person next to them to be there in a pinch. Dress code didn’t exist, prices were changing willi -nilli, strange products were showing up. Clients were confused as to who they called for appointments, who the checks were to be made out to, etc.
After 5 weeks of crazy, everybody voted going back to employee status paid on a floating commission. Everyone was happy again. When I sold that salon 8 years later, it still had the original techs and 3 new ones.
Yes, most are Vietnamese, but within that community, you will find many truly excellent nail salons that play by all the rules, and many non-standard salons. In the nail industry, you will find many Vietnamese nail techs who personify the highest examples and standards of the industry. I've worked for many years as an industry consultant on improving immigrant businesses and the issue is not ethnicity, but education. Vietnamese is not a synonym for NSS and should not be used in this way. (And many patrons get the ethnicity wrong - and can't tell Chinese from Korean from Vietnamese from Cambodian). The fact that you are willing to accept this does not make it any less racist.I have to disagree with you on this. Nail salons here are predominantly owned by Vietnamese ethnicity. So nationality is very relevant. As techniques and way of doing things are passed on within this group.
I am Vietnamese, so I should know.
Yes, most are Vietnamese, but within that community, you will find many truly excellent nail salons that play by all the rules, and many non-standard salons. In the nail industry, you will find many Vietnamese nail techs who personify the highest examples and standards of the industry. I've worked for many years as an industry consultant on improving immigrant businesses and the issue is not ethnicity, but education. Vietnamese is not a synonym for NSS and should not be used in this way. (And many patrons get the ethnicity wrong - and can't tell Chinese from Korean from Vietnamese from Cambodian). The fact that you are willing to accept this does not make it any less racist.
Let me be perfectly frank. I am quite willing to bring race/ethnicity into the discussion; it is a fact of life that needs to be addressed. But I am not willing to address it on your terms. Race/ethnicity is not an issue for just a "quik whip;" it merits substantial thought before speaking. Anything less perpetuates prejudices. Addressing this as a problem of race/ethnicity makes it virtually impossible to solve because it is tied to an immutable-race/ethnicity. "The problem" is quite solvable if you address it as a function of cultural understanding and education, not ethnicity.I understand that you don't to bring ethnicity or race into the picture but it will be a very hard problem to solve if you don't. But I don't want to speak on this too much because I will be honest with you, I haven't given the subject enough thought. What I spoke on in terms of ethnicity is just a quik whip off of my head.
I am Vietnamese, so I should know.
This thread is obviously USA based. How are contractors and employees differentiated in UK?
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