- June 30, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
VERSAILLES, Ky. (WKYT) – Governor Andy Beshear is encouraging Kentuckians to get back to work with an incentive program, but not everyone is on board. Some businesses are taking a stand on what they think are unfair benefits.
The people who run Hair Nation say for them, this isn’t a political statement. It’s simply a matter of fairness to their employees who came back during the pandemic.
When hair salons had to close last year, it was an abrupt stop for those stylists.
“We were out of work for eight weeks and that was really difficult because we didn’t know if we would get assistance. We didn’t know anything, we were just told ‘You have 24 hours. You have to be closed by tomorrow at 5:00,’” Chelsea Mann, who owns the Versailles Hair Nation, said.
At each of their locations, their employees came back, even if they could have made more on unemployment.
“Every single one of these teammates came in on Memorial Day, a day that we are normally…
