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During the last reopening, many salons across the country introduced a waiting list system, which gave clients the ability to call in advance and place their name on a list to guarantee an earlier appointment slot ahead of the reopening.
However, it seems some businesses may scrap waiting lists this time around due to the volume of demands. It s different from business to business, the last time we opened after the first lockdown, we opened up a waiting list about two months before we opened, certainly six weeks before we opened, O Keeffe said. It proved to be a very difficult challenge for us because we had close to 4,000 names on the list.
We re hoping that we will be open by mid-May, somewhere around the 17th of May is what we re hoping for cause it will give us enough time not just to restock our salons, get our salons recleaned, also to get our staff in the right frame of mind because they have all been off now since Christmas Eve, it s a long time to be out of work. Mentally we have to get our staff geared up, he said. We reopened after the first lockdown with very strict protocols that the industry put together and the government approved, so we ve been all over that the last two reopenings, salon owners up and down the country have done an amazing job adhering to those protocols and making sure that staff and clients alike are aware of them and following them.
Hairdressers working around the clock in the run-up to the festive season will not be entitled to a Christmas bonus despite spending months out of work due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Mark O Keeffe, director of Brown Sugar salons, who employs more than 100 staff, said hairdressers will not be entitled to the social welfare bonus because their employers were encouraged to take staff off the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and pay them through the books in the second lockdown.
Mr O Keeffe said Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe needs to put his hands up and admit his mistake .
He added: In the first lockdown, staff were placed on the PUP. But in the second lockdown, salon owners were encouraged to keep staff on the books.