The High Price of Pretty Feet: Addressing the Plight of Nail Salon Workers

… the industry is rife with health and safety violations. Not only are American consumers – mostly women, eager for low-cost manicures and pedicures – increasingly at risk for bacterial and fungal infections, but the salon workers themselves – many of them undocumented, and over 80% women – face workplace exploitation in addition to threats of toxic contamination. The industry is in desperate need of regulatory reform, union organizing and stronger labor enforcement.