Often overlooked, nail salon workers in Massachusetts face income instability and health hazards
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Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter EmailThere are more than 18,000 licensed technicians working at roughly 1,700 registered salons across the state, according to the report, which builds on a small survey of Vietnamese nail salon workers in 2021 focused on pandemic-related challenges. The new research didn’t reveal the kind of exploitation detailed in a 2015 New York Times investigation that found new workers who had to pay salon owners for their spots and worked without pay for months. But Massachusetts can take steps to improve income stability and working conditions, which will help transform nail salon work into a more sustainable livelihood, project partners said. In New York, for instance, nail salon workers have a bill of rights, and California has a program to recognize salons that have adopted healthy workplace practices. “The nail salon industry has … helped to provide income in the past to raise up entire generations,” said Thao Ho, staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Center, which coauthored the report.
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