Labor Law
California Manicurists May No Longer Be Booth Renters
As of January 1, 2025, California will no longer allow nail salons to have independent booth renters operating in their salons and all manicurists will be classified as employees! This means all nail techs in California will have to be transitioned into W-2 employees, else the establishment owner will face …
Time to Revisit Your Booth Rental Contract
This column isn’t meant to provide legal counsel to any particular booth rental salon, since the operations of every salon is unique to that establishment. The law must apply specifically to the all of the relevant facts on the ground, not just the written contract. Since we cannot answer …
California’s New Booth Rental Law
Happy New Year! Hard to believe it’s 2020. With a new year — and decade — comes new laws and new approaches to making a living in beauty. Since the vast majority of salon establishments utilize booth renters, we wanted to provide a detailed explanation of California’s groundbreaking new independent …
New Laws on Booth Rental and Schools
Last month we discussed several major legal and regulatory changes that have or doubtlessly will touch the lives and business operations of every person earning a living in the world of beauty. These major policy reforms underscore the importance of a state association that can maintain an active presence at …
Change Is Coming!
The only constant about the world of beauty is change. As laws and regulations are reformed, as the market shifts, as consumer preferences and styles alter, you can rest assured that our industry will evolve accordingly. Our livelihood, profit-margins and image depend on this adaptive nimbleness. Public policies and regulatory …
Discouraging Incentive Pay
Here in the Golden State, we subscribe to the “golden rule”, but not the one you’re familiar with about Do Onto Others. No, we believe He Who Has The Gold Rules! And in Sacramento, that means the well-financed trial lawyers and labor unions are mostly in charge. This political reality …
Questioning Booth Rental
Last year, this site dedicated three columns to the dramatic changes threatening Booth Rental in our industry, most notably in the Golden State via a recent State Supreme Court ruling called Dynamex. Other states, including our nearby northern neighbor, Washington, are seeking the end of Booth Rental via legislation, modeling …
2018 Was The Year of Dramatic Change
January, 2019 If the past is prologue, 2019 will likely be a very busy year in the policy and regulatory reform arena, with serious implications for everyone earning a living in our industry. Here’s a recap of last year’s dramatic developments. Limits To Commissions I have spent countless hours on …
Booth Rental, Part III
With this article, I’ve dedicated three columns to the topic of Booth Rental since the landmark California Supreme Court decision was issued this past April. The reason I’ve spent so much ink on the Dynamex ruling is that I continue to receive frustrated correspondences from salon owners and stylists, alike, …
End of Booth Rental, Part II
In my June column, I strode atop the mountain to declare the end of Booth Rental … at least in California, and likely coming to all other states soon. Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of booth rental are greatly exaggerated. Allow me to explain and place …
