Beauty professionals from across the country recently spent a day on Capitol Hill to educate legislators and key staffers about the importance of their constituency and the needs of their small business community.
During the Professional Beauty Federation’s (PBF) 8th Annual “Welcome to Our World” educational event, representatives from independent and chain salons, day spas, cosmetology schools, beauty product manufacturers, distributors and the industry’s associations first met with their own legislators to educate them about the professional salon industry’s reach and importance in their own Congressional districts.
Later that day, they continued the conversations during demonstrations of hair cuts, mini manicures, chair massages, makeup application and other services rendered in the nation’s hundreds of thousands of salons every day across the country.
Two issues of immediate importance to the cosmetology industry are fairness in taxation and access to cosmetology education. H.R. 3016, the Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act, would make it possible for salon owners to claim a tax credit for the FICA taxes they must now pay on their employees’ tips, a benefit that restaurant owners already receive. The legislation will also improve income reporting within the industry.
In regard to education, the PBF thanked Congress for enacting positive provisions for students attending clock hour institutions of higher education in the Higher Education Reconciliation Act portion of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and College Cost Reduction Act of 2007.
Those provisions will enable cosmetology students to enter the workforce sooner, with less potential indebtedness, enabling them to enter a job market where demand for qualified applicants exceeds the supply by more than three-to-one.
The cosmetology industry supports efforts in Congress to include year-round Pell eligibility for all students, and elimination of, or significant modification to, the 90-10 rule, in the final HEA legislation.
“This important event brings an entire $60 billion industry to Capitol Hill in just one day,” explains Eric Schwartz, president of the Professional Beauty Federation.
“It provides the perfect forum for our legislators to learn about important small-business and education issues that affect millions of their constituents, while they enjoy the services that are performed by 1.6 million licensed professionals hundreds of times a day in hundreds of salons in each of their districts.”
Founded in 1999, the PBF represents the political interests of the Professional Beauty Industry. Members include the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS), the International Salon/Spa Business Network (ISBN), the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), OPI Products, Inc., Great Clips, JC Penney Salons and Regis Corporation.
The PBF represents 27,000 independent and chain salons, which employ 270,000 licensed beauty professionals, who see more than 400 million client visits per year. PBF membership also includes 1,200 cosmetology schools, 80,000 cosmetology students, 400 product distributors and 700 manufacturers of products used and sold in professional salons. Visit www.probeautyfed
During the Professional Beauty Federation’s (PBF) 8th Annual “Welcome to Our World” educational event, representatives from independent and chain salons, day spas, cosmetology schools, beauty product manufacturers, distributors and the industry’s associations first met with their own legislators to educate them about the professional salon industry’s reach and importance in their own Congressional districts.
Later that day, they continued the conversations during demonstrations of hair cuts, mini manicures, chair massages, makeup application and other services rendered in the nation’s hundreds of thousands of salons every day across the country.
Two issues of immediate importance to the cosmetology industry are fairness in taxation and access to cosmetology education. H.R. 3016, the Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act, would make it possible for salon owners to claim a tax credit for the FICA taxes they must now pay on their employees’ tips, a benefit that restaurant owners already receive. The legislation will also improve income reporting within the industry.
In regard to education, the PBF thanked Congress for enacting positive provisions for students attending clock hour institutions of higher education in the Higher Education Reconciliation Act portion of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and College Cost Reduction Act of 2007.
Those provisions will enable cosmetology students to enter the workforce sooner, with less potential indebtedness, enabling them to enter a job market where demand for qualified applicants exceeds the supply by more than three-to-one.
The cosmetology industry supports efforts in Congress to include year-round Pell eligibility for all students, and elimination of, or significant modification to, the 90-10 rule, in the final HEA legislation.
“This important event brings an entire $60 billion industry to Capitol Hill in just one day,” explains Eric Schwartz, president of the Professional Beauty Federation.
“It provides the perfect forum for our legislators to learn about important small-business and education issues that affect millions of their constituents, while they enjoy the services that are performed by 1.6 million licensed professionals hundreds of times a day in hundreds of salons in each of their districts.”
Founded in 1999, the PBF represents the political interests of the Professional Beauty Industry. Members include the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS), the International Salon/Spa Business Network (ISBN), the Professional Beauty Association (PBA), OPI Products, Inc., Great Clips, JC Penney Salons and Regis Corporation.
The PBF represents 27,000 independent and chain salons, which employ 270,000 licensed beauty professionals, who see more than 400 million client visits per year. PBF membership also includes 1,200 cosmetology schools, 80,000 cosmetology students, 400 product distributors and 700 manufacturers of products used and sold in professional salons. Visit www.probeautyfed
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