would that not make them want higher wages since they need a license?
Posted on 08/12/2020 9:39:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Americans are hurting for jobs. But New York state's lawmakers are poised to make it even tougher to earn a paycheck by concocting licensing requirements for something as simple as giving a shampoo. The Albany pols have something to gain -- campaign contributions from those pushing the new requirement. But if you're eyeing a job in a hair salon, these politicians are making your life harder. Occupational licensing is a job killer.
More restrictions on working are not what Americans need. Jobs in personal care in New York state are down a staggering 37% because of the coronavirus shutdown.
Even so, New York lawmakers want to create a new state certificate for "shampoo assistant," the person who helps you with your plastic cape, bends you back to the wash sink and shampoos your hair. "Wet, wash, rinse, repeat." Sounds simple. But in New York, it will require completing 500 hours of training at a state-certified cosmetology school.
New York law already requires that anyone providing beauty services graduate from a certified cosmetology school, pass exams and get a state license. But in practice, the requirement has applied to coloring, cutting and styling hair, not shampooing. Generally, the same person who answers the phone, folds towels and sweeps up handles that task.
The new restriction is being pushed by the Salon & Spa Professionals of NYS. Follow the money to understand why. This organization rakes in membership fees from cosmetology schools. Their goal is to prevent people from working in the beauty industry until they've forked over a huge tuition to get a cosmetology certificate.
Tuition at Academy NYC of Cosmetology and Esthetics runs $14,500 for the 1,000 hours required to apply for a cosmetology license. Aveda Institute is even pricier, $16,995 for the course. It's a racket. Many students go into debt and have little chance of making enough to pay it back.
This same tragedy is being repeated in many states where high-priced cosmetology schools prevent people from entering the beauty trade.
This racket would not exist except for the cooperation of state legislators. To complete the New York money trail, Richard Ostroff, of Ostroff Associates, the lobbying firm that represents Salon & Spa Professionals of NYS, has donated $1,150 to Assemblyman John McDonald III and $1,500 to Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, two of the Democrats pushing for shampoo assistant certification.
Everybody makes out like a bandit -- except the working person who needs a salon job.
Similar licensing scams are hurting working people all across the nation. New York's requirements are not even the worst. Some states require as much as 2,100 hours of cosmetology school training to work in a salon. That's almost twice what is needed to become an emergency medical technician, making life and death decisions in the back of an ambulance.
State licensing abuses extend to many other occupations, from hair braiding and makeup artistry to interior designer and landscape architecture. All are intended to keep out competition.
Now, in the depths of the COVID-19 economic downturn, states should be eliminating barriers to employment, not piling on new ones. Florida just enacted The Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act, a law to deregulate many occupations and make it easier for people to earn a living. Unreasonable educational requirements and licensing fees keep people out of work. States everywhere should copy Florida's new law.
They should be culling existing state occupational regulations to eliminate all but the few needed to protect the public's health and safety. For example, instead of 1,000 hours or more of expensive training at a cosmetology school, beauty salon workers should be required to take a course in hygiene, to protect their clients from infectious diseases such as the coronavirus and common bacterial infections such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which are often transmitted in nail salons.
But there is one profession that seems to need more oversight -- not less. That's the politicians themselves, who could use lessons on the harms done by overregulation and -- oh, yes -- on ethics.
If it moves government will find a way to tax it.
If it is up to the Rat pols, you would have to have a license to shampoo your own hair
Yep. A big reason I shoe horses; there’s very little if anything in the line of licensing and permitting.
Cuomo is asking for more $$$ to bailout NY for all the lost revenue due to lost jobs, all Trump’s fault for COVID.
Of course it is. Professional associations (including the ones for engineers like me) always support licensure requirements, and pretend the reason is public safety, quality of service, etc., blah blah blah. The real reason is it raises barriers to competition.
Here's a good example of their hypocrisy. They litigated, with some success, to prevent IT people from calling themselves 'engineers'. However, they were disappointed that they couldn't stop train engineers from using the term because they'd been using longer than we had. So their position is "come along after us and use our word and we'll sue you, but when we're the latecomers, we don't think we deserve to be similarly sued, we just find it unfortunate we can't kick out those who were here before us". Azzholes.
But a small microcosm of the corporate/government complex picking winners and losers for cash.
Right on up to the Chamber of Amnesty pimping for wide open borders.
Another new NYS law, just recently passed is the mandatory requirement for all back seat occupants to be "seat-belted in".
The law takes effect in September - just in time for schools to restart !
I imagine the gum balls will be lined up just outside the school driveway for the $50.oo fines.
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How Many Hours to Become a Recreational PilotI don't know how much ground school is on top of that, but I doubt very seriously that shampooing hair needs more training than flying a plane.A recreational pilot license is similar to sport, but it allows you to fly bigger, more powerful airplanes.
Naturally, this requires more flight hours.
To get the license, you need at least 30 hours, including a minimum of 15 hours of flight training, 3 hours of solo flight, and 2 hours of cross country.
How Many Hours to Become a Private Pilot
Remember when we talked about the different types of flight schools under the FAA rules?
In a Part 141 flight school, you need at least 35 hours to get the private pilot license (PPL). Those 35 hours must include a minimum of 20 hours of instruction time and 5 hours of solo flight.
That threshold goes up to 40 hours in a part 61 flight school, though, including at least 20 hours of training and 10 hours of solo time.
you can do the ground school at home in a couple months after hours
They also tried to prevent Broadcast Engineers from calling themselves ‘engineers’, but quickly found out that it’s an official Federal government title and license.
would that not make them want higher wages since they need a license?
I carried the long winded but meaningless title Broadcast TV Engineer II and later I II.
I was a glorified VT operator.
Other than the first supervisor when I started, maybe one guy had a real electronics background.
I kind of went the other way. Started fooling around with electronics, SW, and Ham radio when I was 10 or so. Then in my late teens, early 20’s worked as a DOD contractor moving around to different air bases working on Avionics/Radar for about 4 years.
Got my 1st Phone with Radar Endorsement because it got me a bump in pay. Later ended up doing CCTV work which segued into Cable TV and Broadcasting, doing UHF/VHF/Microwave stuff.
Then in the late 70’s I was at Johnson Space Center in Houston, doing NASA Television for the Shuttle. Stay there for about 10 years, and then left after the Challenger Explosion. Then started my own computer services company and moved into Internet stuff when it came along.
Retired in 2008, my wife and I bought an RV motorcoach and we live and travel in it fulltime.
It’s been a wild and crazy ride.
What always bothered me is how they license ‘the trades’. I don’t have a problem with say, electricians and plumbers being licensed (for obvious reasons, they should have some clue as to what they’re doing), but is it really necessary for them to know how to wire and plumb a large factory, if they’re willing to take a limited license, confined to say, only residential work (with residential clearly defined). That way many more people could be licensed and the price for that work could be far less for consumers (not that the price affects me in any, but does affect others, I think). For those who do want to work the big jobs, they can get a full contractor’s license.
Salon owners aren’t even really salon owners much these days anymore. They are landlords. They build a salon and rent the stations out to those with cosmetology licenses - because they don’t want all the onerous difficulty of managing and scheduling employees, training them, paying payroll taxes, hiring a payroll service and so on. I’m sure the states will eventually crack down on that practice too now, the way they have gone after Uber/Lyft.
It’s been a while but I think “Cross Country” is defined as something like a 20 or 50 mile flight from one airport to another. It’s not exactly “cross country” - not even across state lines - which if you could do in a typical single engine trainer would take many days and many refueling stops.
Could be, since you have to pay to renew your license and probably pay to get some training every year. Not to mention insurance requirements, etc.
100% so what happens? hair dressers will wind up doing washes too but seeing fewer customers
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