Submission Statement: While it has been deemphasized recently, occupational licensing reform was one of the original policy topic for NL. This law would increase the training requirements of braiding, even through most states require no license at all. This hurts both consumers and employees, making braiding more less available and more difficult to enter.
Posted by quiplaam
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Professional licensing for anything that won’t kill a person (that is not the person doing the job) if you mess up should not be a requirement of the state. It’s gone way too far. When both the Trump and Obama White House’s agree on something, you know that thing sucks.
In California you need more hours of training to cut hair than to be an EMT…..why? (I mean I know why, I get into are argument about it in r/accounting regularly, but how can people not see how stupid this is?)
Truly, this is one of the things where the libertarian “just go somewhere else then” is flat out correct. If someone cuts hair like hot ass, they will not be around very long.
A bad haircut/style sucks, but it’s not gonna kill you. The training should be about avoiding cuts and sanitizing things, done and done. Almost 21 total days of training (63 eight-hour work shifts) to do anything at all, when it can probably be compressed to a week of shifts about safety and hygiene.