Hair and Beauty, Cosmetics and Aesthetics

The hair, beauty and cosmetic industry is booming in Australia, with the sector generating $8.47bn in 2022 and employing over 120,700 workers industry-wide.

Despite this rosy outlook, there’s little doubt it’s a challenging sector for employers. Supply issues, an often complex regulatory environment, branding decisions, managing client expectations and online reviews…and that’s even before you get to the employment and HR side of things.

The Award covering those working in the hair and beauty industry is 69 pages, contains 6 classifications of employees plus classifications for juniors, trainees and graduates. To top things off, the Award contains 16 allowances that can apply to workers.

Nurses working in your clinic performing injectables services? That’s a separate Award:  another 82 pages and with 5 levels of Registered Nurses, 6 grades and 8 pay points that can apply, it can be challenging knowing what you need to know.

It would be difficult to argue working in your industry often comes with team members with big personalities. And that can mean emotion and drama when it comes to managing people, personalities and performance. Got time for that?  If the answer is no, maybe you should consider getting some help. From a genuine HR expert.

That’s where Bare Bones Consulting steps up for you. With over 20 years in the HR game, we specialise in providing the best human resources advice and employment documents for those operating in the hair and beauty, cosmetic and aesthetic sectors. We can help you find and keep the best people, manage employee underperformance without conflict, ensure you have the right employment policies (and you better have a solid social media policy for employees!) and put in place development programs that actually work for those in charge of others in your team.

We know the Awards that apply to your sector and can help navigate you through the maze of employment terms and conditions in each one so you make the right decisions first time.

We’ll help you with:

• Employment Contracts
• Workplace policies and procedures
• Employee motivation and engagement
• Dispute resolution
• Fair Work Commission matters
• Recruitment, interview and selection
• Termination of employment
• Professional development

When you have the right HR support in place, things are simply easier for you. Less time bogged down in employment paperwork and employee drama translates to more time for the things that matter to you, whether this be building your brand or just better work/ life balance.

Contact us today for a complimentary consultation.