Labor law violations and hostile work environment - Hair Stylist Drybar Employee Review

1.0
Mar 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great money when its busy. Commission is competitive. You get to build your clientele for cut and color services in your salon.

Cons

Retaliation for asking for your breaks. Hostile management that talks down to you. Trainers that can barely do hair on their own. Higher ups push leadership to break labor laws up to and including changing hourly employees time clocks. Hourly Employees pressured into working off the clock. Entire staff instructed to not clock in on NYE 2016 and hours manually entered to avoid overtime. When you contact HR with any issues it takes months for them to act on claims. Harassment and retaliation happening daily.

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Drybar Response
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What you are alleging is not an acceptable practice whatsoever at our company and we would really like to hear from you directly. Please contact your District Manager or the human resources department as soon as possible. Thank you.

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Pros

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Cons

Drybar is NOT your average corporate salon, they DO NOT like for hairdressers to sit around riding their CLOCK w/o nothing to do, they will have you clock out for the rest of your shift and send you home (ex.; if your shift is from 12pm-6pm and the salon slowdown around 2:15pm ( if you NOT cleaning, sweeping, restocking) they will send you home); literally, just putting you at 2hrs 15min for the day!! Highly played FAVORITISM (Depending on your “Home Salon” from District, manager to Salon manager ), *YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A VALID REASON * ( JEALOUSY or HATING either or both are very UNPROFESSIONAL in the workplace)!

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