including Korean. The Bill of Rights for Nail Workers includes information on how much money workers should make depending on the location of the salon and if they do or do not receive tips. It also informs workers that their employers must provide them with gloves, respirators for when they are working with artificial nails, as well as eye protection when they are handling chemicals. The employees are also informed that they cannot be denied a meal break, denied safety gear, or made to pay for their entry into their jobs. A hotline was also created for workers to report violations and abuse. The Korean Nail Salon Association of New York sued Cuomo over these new regulations and laws, specifically those that had to do with wage bonds, arguing that because the majority of nail salon owners were Asian, they were being unfairly targeted and that it constituted discrimination. They also felt discriminated against specifically as nail salon owners, and that other beauty industries were not being made to make the same changes. This led to owners raising their prices, and responding that this would hurt not only their business but the jobs of the workers because they may not be able to afford to keep them hired. They also argued that they were not given enough time to purchase the bonds. By December 2015 the lawsuit had been thrown out. In 2016 Cuomo instituted new rules surrounding the implementation of ventilation in salons that sought to expel air contaminates from the salon to outdoors. While the Korean Nail Salon Association of New York warned against it, a number of Korean nail salon owners decided to sue Cuomo over the new rules, citing that the new ventilation system was too expensive, and that research had not properly proven that the fumes and chemicals from nail products were toxic. The suit was thrown out in 2017. Within a year of its creation the task force found over 600 wage violations in 143 salons; as a result these salons were ordered to pay two million dollars to 652 employees in unpaid wages. References American people of Korean descent Nail care Labor relations in the United States