Sonja Vorster
The industry of beauty, health and hair is like bread and butter for mainly women but men deem this industry just as important.
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Barbershops also fall within this legislation. Unfortunately, the clientele do not realise the hard work involved working in this industry.
In the case of hairdressing, beauty, cosmetology and skincare industry it is not well known that each and every employee and employer’s business MUST be registered by law with the Hairdressing, Beauty, Cosmetology and Skincare Industry Bargain Council of SA (NBCHBCSI).
With bargaining councils such as in many other industries, the NBCHBCSI takes its statutory authority from the South African Labour Relations Act (Act 66 of 1995).
As a salon owner providing any form of employment the business must be registered with the council. This includes apprentices, general workers; rent a chair operators, beauty therapists, qualified or unqualified hairdressers, etc.
If you started your employment with the understanding that you are working towards a qualification and you or the salon is not registered and operating under the radar of the bargaining council, you as a trainee, cannot obtain formal qualification.
A salon does not give you the qualification; the board provides the guidelines, earnings, examinations and ultimately the qualification.
If you are the owner of a salon/clinic/barber and you cannot afford the statutory wages set out by the council, the only legal way is, as a registered member of the bargaining council, to apply to the NBCHBCSI for exemption.
The NBCHBCSI website provides free access to the National Collective Agreement and Wage Schedules, the new National Agency Fee Collective Agreement, rules of the National Sick Pay Fund and National Sick Benefit Fund, Pension Fund as well as information on City and Guilds and Industry Training.
Disputes do not fall within the jurisdiction of the CCMA but within the bargaining council dispute forum.
The bargaining council for KZN can be contacted by employers or employees (without fear of victimisation) at office 84, Davenport Square, 89 Helen Joseph Road, Glenwood, telephone number 031 201 1193/5 or on website hcsbc.co.za
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