{"id":47579,"date":"2020-08-16T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-shampoo-assistant-bill-is-dripping-with-special-interests\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T01:35:00","slug":"new-york-shampoo-assistant-bill-is-dripping-with-special-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-shampoo-assistant-bill-is-dripping-with-special-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York shampoo assistant bill is dripping with special interests"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York shampoo assistant bill is dripping with special interests<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n A state bureaucrat wants to mandate 500 hours of training for anyone who shampoos hair at a beauty salon or barbershop \u2014 but something about her push for the bizarre new requirement just doesn\u2019t wash.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because she is also a beauty school owner, The Post has found, as is a second member of the state board that licenses salon workers.<\/p>\n

A third person on the panel runs a membership and lobbying group for the cosmetology school industry.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s out of four total board members.<\/p>\n

If their training-before-shampooing mandate passes, hair washers would have to spend an average of $13,354 on beauty school each to secure a \u201cshampoo assistant\u201d license.<\/p>\n

Requiring such licenses could turn on a gushing spigot of hundreds of millions of dollars for beauty school owners across the state, possibly benefiting board chairwoman Michelle D\u2019Allaird Brenner, who is pushing the state Assembly to app<\/a>rove the measure.<\/p>\n

Member Anthony Fiore also owns a school and could potentially profit, as well.<\/p>\n

As could Anthony Civitano, who serves as executive director of the American Association of Cosmetology Schools.<\/p>\n

New York state currently has 22,997 hair salons and 4,847 barbershops \u2014 all of which could be impacted if the proposed bill becomes law.<\/p>\n

If just one shampoo assistant from each business had to pay for training, the total learn-to-lather classwork cost could top $370 million.<\/p>\n

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Shampoo assistant Evelyn Moquette shampoos hair at Astor Place Hairstylists.<\/span>Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And with just 61 such schools in the state, each would be awash in cash \u2014 with a potential average of more than $6 million per school in extra revenue.<\/p>\n

A pricy license mandate would put the \u201csham\u201d in shampoo, say people who already wash hair for a living.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s simple shampoo. Anyone can do it,\u201d said Evelyn Moquete, 45, who has worked as a shampoo assistant at Greenwich Village\u2019s iconic Astor Place Hairstylists for six years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I should have to go to school for a simple shampoo. My family needs me and my grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Allaird Brenner, who chairs the state\u2019s Division of Licensing Services advisory committee and owns the Aesthetic Science<\/a> Institute, made no apologies for the arrangement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur businesses thrive on the fact that these students need these hours in order to get a license and to work,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cWe would surely be negatively impacted if there was any lack of licensure requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Co-owner John Vezza outside Astor Place Hairstylists.<\/span>Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere was a time that many states looked at delicensing our profession altogether. For us, it would have been just a disaster,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Fiore, who owns Capri Cosmetology Learning Center, with outlets in Nanuet and Newburgh, said of the proposal, \u201cI wasn\u2019t even aware of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not pushing anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The average tuition and fees for a cosmetology course in the state is $13,354, according to an industry estimate, though it\u2019s less at D\u2019Allaird Brenner\u2019s school in Latham, which charges $9,600.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a trade group for the schools enjoys a friendly connection to the bill\u2019s backer in the Assembly.<\/p>\n

Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, (D-Saratoga Springs), who co-sponsored the bill, employs Christopher Garofano, 25, as her legislative director.<\/p>\n

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Chris Garofano<\/span>Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Garofano\u2019s father, Todd, serves as executive director of the Salon & Spa Professionals of NYS, a nonprofit that reps cosmetology schools. Garofano\u2019s mother, Hollene, previously served as a director of the organization.<\/p>\n

Todd Garofano said he presented the shampoo-assistant bill to Woerner\u2019s office and worked with her chief of staff, Mark Luciano. He said his son had nothing to do with the initiative.<\/p>\n

Lisa Knepper, an expert on licensing requirements at the nonprofit Institute for Justice, noted research showing that the more a state\u2019s cosmetology board is dominated by industry professionals, the stiffer barriers to entry become.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the interests that have a lot of sway traditionally are cosmetology schools and barbering schools,\u201d Knepper told The Post.<\/p>\n

The state also expects to take its cut with applications, fees and fines from assistants and salons.<\/p>\n

Trade groups said that they were merely trying to clarify existing law by codifying the new title of shampoo assistant, and that doing so would protect salons and barbershops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people in the state right now who have hired \u2018shampoo assistants\u2019 who are being fined now for doing it. It takes it aboveboard, makes it legitimate,\u201d Todd Garofano said.<\/p>\n

Part of the issue lies with what jobs a \u201cshampoo assistant\u201d can and can\u2019t do under current law.<\/p>\n

While at least some degree of licensing appears to be required if one wants to shampoo hair, the details are hazy.<\/p>\n

Garofano and some salon owners told The Post that anyone who shampoos or \u201ctouches hair\u201d already must have 1,000 hours of training \u2014 and that the proposed shampoo-assistant rule would make the existing law less onerous.<\/p>\n

Others disagreed.<\/p>\n

John Vezza, whose family has owned Astor Place Hairstylists for 75 years, said it was \u201cnews<\/a> to me\u201d that his assistants who shampoo and perform other tasks needed certification.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had dozens of random inspections over the years, and I\u2019ve never had a problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the very least, \u201cshampoos, rinses, conditioners and treatments\u201d are unambiguously covered with just 80 hours of the state\u2019s 300-hour natural-hairstyling license.<\/p>\n

The other 220 hours cover \u201chair-braiding, locking, weaving and styling.<\/p>\n

The state Division of Licensing Services declined to clarify<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Melissa Klein<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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