The price of nice nails: analysis

By:Sunshine Nowak-Wolff
I read "The Price of Nice Nails". This article was interesting to me because I get my nails done often, as do many other women in the world.
The article talked about the conditions that many manicurists work under. Many are underpaid, or not even paid. Jing Ren, a 20 year old who had recently come from China, waited for a job in the Long Island strip mall. The salon owner charged each new employee for her job. She would work for no wages, earning only her tips until her boss decided she was skillful enough to earn a wage. Many salons in the New York area operate this way, though it isn't fair. "The New York Times interviewed more than 150 nail salon workers and owners, in four languages, and found that a vast majority of workers are paid below minimum wage; sometimes they are not even paid." The workers endure humiliation, video monitoring, and in some cases, even physical abuse. Employers are rarely punished for these labor violations. A salon in East Northport, N.Y., where workers said they were only paid $1.50 an hour, charged the employees for drinking water, and often paid them nothing at all on slow days.
I don't agree with the treatment of the employees of the nail salons. It's wrong.