Beauty salons today are large workplaces, often with multiple branches across a city, and the POSH Act, 2013 applies to them just like any other business. Beauticians, stylists, therapists and receptionists work in close contact with clients every day, which makes a safe and respectful workplace essential. Learn when your salon needs an Internal Committee, what multi-branch salons must do, and how non-compliance can damage your brand and licence.
Does the POSH Act Apply to Your Beauty Salon? Yes, It Does!
Today beauty salons are no longer small places run by one or two staff alone. Many of them apart from being massive places have branches in various parts of the city. A beauty salon too, is a workplace.
Beauticians, hairstylists, receptionists, therapists and other salon employees deserve a safe and respectful working environment. Just as your staff receives regular trainings to keep themselves upgraded, they need to receive regular trainings and orientations under the POSH Act too.
The POSH Act, 2013 applies to salons, beauty parlours, spas and wellness centres. Even smaller establishments have legal responsibilities to prevent workplace sexual harassment.
In salons, employees interact closely with clients and colleagues. Inappropriate comments, unwanted physical contact, repeated personal advances or harassment by customers can create an unsafe workplace.
- Does your salon have a POSH policy?
- Do your employees know what to do if a customer or colleague behaves inappropriately?
- Does it have an IC?
- Just as you display the latest trends and offers, have you displayed the information regarding the IC and contact information?
- Have they been trained and oriented under the POSH Act?
Where a salon has 10 or more employees, an Internal Committee must be constituted. If your salon has different branches at different locations in a city, even then you are liable to comply with the provisions of the POSH Act.
One unfortunate incident of workplace harassment can ruin the name and image of the salon that you have build in years. In some cases, non- compliance can even lead to cancellation of licenses. In order to prevent any such mishappening, ensure that your salon is POSH compliant and ensures the safety of the clients as well as the staff.
Nawal Foundation supports salon owners through simple POSH awareness sessions, staff sensitization, compliance guidance, providing external member and Internal Committee training.
Beauty begins with confidence. Confidence begins with safety.
Make your salon a safer workplace with Nawal Foundation.
