The coronavirus outbreak and resulting decline in customers is particularly troubling for New York's nail technicians. caitmosc reports
Photo: jakubzak/Getty Images/iStockphoto As more New Yorkers stay home out of fear of getting sick, the city’s roughly 4,000 nail salons are either bracing for impact or feeling it already. The outbreak and resulting decline in customers is particularly troubling for nail technicians. While some salons offer paid sick leave, many don’t, according to a recent report by the New York Nail Salon Workers Association.
At the salons where she works, Araceli is provided a mask but not gloves. If she gets sick, she has little protection. Her insurance, which she pays for out of pocket through the state marketplace, only covers emergencies, and she does not have paid sick leave, despite a New York City law requiring businesses with five or more employees to provide it. Araceli says she is allowed to ask clients to wash their hands before a manicure, and if not, she can suggest they use hand sanitizer.
Tenoverten co-founder Nadine Abramcyk says the company provides paid sick leave to all of its roughly 200 employees, and guarantees full-time staff a 40-hours-a-week schedule. The company has also communicated to employees that if a client appears sick, they can alert a manager.
Rita de Alencar Pinto, founder of Vanity Projects, an upscale nail salon on the Lower East Side with 126,000 Instagram followers, says she’s been struggling to fill normally sought-after appointments in the midst of the pandemic. “I have never seen availabilities the way I have right now,” she says. Even with increased precautions — hand sanitizer at every station, a cleaning crew working five days a week instead of the usual three — some clients are steering clear.
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