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The apprentice Alex Ritchie says that losing staff as she will have a massive impact on the industry
Salon owners warn that they may not be able to face new apprentices in the two years due to financial pressures.
The British Hair Consortium, which represents 50,000 hairdressing professionals, calls on the government to modify how they are taxed, saying that the current system poses an “existential crisis”.
Apprentices have told BBC Newsbeat that programs are an important opportunity for people who do not want to continue additional studies.
The government was approached for comments but did not respond.
Salons pay 20% VAT like most companies, but the British Hair Consortium says that because the work they do is so demanding in labor rather than selling products, they have fewer Possibility of achieving these costs.
So, to maintain low costs, he indicates that an increasing number of salons choose to rent chairs instead of using stylists to avoid paying the tax.
A CBI Economics report revealed that this should have a training effect on opportunities for apprentices.
He believes that in 2027, “there may be no new learning offered and that direct employment could fall by 93% by 2030”.
‘Paralyzing many salons’
For the 22 -year -old apprentice, Alex Ritchie, “it’s quite frightening to know that people will not have the opportunity we get”.
She trains in Darlington, in the county of Durham, and dreams of having her own living room one day but is worried that without apprentices, the industry will really find it difficult.
“You cannot manage a living room without having an apprentices,” she said.
“They are your main support when you make customers. It will have a huge impact on the amount of fairs and the number of customers they can take.”
Jezz Ellis is head of saks operations, a chain of salons in the northeast of England, and says that things do not change, learning hairstyle will become less attractive.
The salons are faced with a “perfect storm”, he says, which will have an impact on the number of apprentices that they can afford to train.
“You have the VAT problem that has always been difficult.”
But there is also the growing question of employment without safety or “disguised” resulting from less jobs of staff offered.
Adam Hussain says that the hairstyle will always be his “discount” once he has finished his learning
This means that even if they could work on the rules of a fair and be treated as an employee, they are in fact self -employed, so lack services such as disease wages, maternity wages and pensions.
“And with the national insurance that increases and an increase in the national minimum wage, it makes it very difficult for these salons to increase their prices to meet additional costs.
“All these added things are paralyzing with many salons,” explains Jezz.
For Adam Hussain, who works towards his level two learning in hairstyle, the advantages are important for people like him.
“Without this learning, I would not be where I am today,” he said. “I would probably make God know what.
“Learning is really good – you are paid to learn, you learn at work, it’s a very practical career.”
The British Hair Consortium wants the government to act quickly before spring forecasts on March 26, where Chancellor Rachel Reeves will establish economic plans for the future.
Although the government did not respond to the request for Newsbeat comments, the Ministry of Education previously declared that it was time that learning was taken seriously.
Last week, he announced changes that will allow employers to decide whether a qualification of mathematics and English is necessary or not to request certain learning.
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