"Afraid of my employer!"

“But you should! Because your employer is obligated to make gloves available for you. Besides, he should have an interest in having a healthy employee with attractive and well cared-for hands, right?”

Every employer is obligated to make appropriate personal protective gear, that means including gloves, available in the workplace. This of course applies to hairdressing salons too because there are many substances in them which can harm the skin with repeated contact, e.g. hair colouring agents, shampoo, water and cleaning agents.   

It is important to ask your employer to discuss this with you and to speak to him/her about the subject objectively. Such a request demonstrates an employee’s concern about her/his own health and work capacity. And it is in every employer’s interest, because only with healthy and well cared-for hands, the most important working tools, can employees be at their best in the workplace.