Hair and Beauty Industry Award
Covers hairdressing, barbering, beauty therapy, nail services and related personal-care work. 6 classifications (L1-L6, standard rate Level 3), 3-tier junior structure (under-17 / 17 / 18+), and 3-year apprentice grids for both hairdressing and beauty therapy with year-12 splits. Penalty rates use time-of-day windows on Saturdays and Sundays - outside the windows, ordinary rate applies.
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
Official Fair Work rates. This award’s minimum pay rates are synced directly from the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Awards Pay Database and updated automatically when the Commission changes them - including the annual wage review - so payroll always uses the current legal minimums without a manual update.
What's built
- All 6 cl. 17.1 classifications including the previously-missing L5 and L6 rows.
- Junior rates: under-17 at 50%, 17 at the distinctive 75%, 18+ as adult.
- Apprentice grids - hairdressing and beauty therapy, both 3-year nominal, with year-12-completed split.
- All cl. 20 allowances - manager, first-aid, Broken Hill, two meal-OT bands, vehicle, clothing reimbursement, tool / equipment, electrical equipment reimbursement, travel time / transport / excess and moving expenses.
- Time-windowed FT / PT penalties - Saturday 7am-6pm at 133%, Sunday 10am-5pm at 200%, public holiday any time at 250%, RDO any time at 200%.
- Separate casual penalty windows captured as configuration - Mon-Fri before 7am / after 9pm at 150%, Sunday any time at 225%.
Known limitations
- Saturday / Sunday penalty windows are seeded but the resolver must apply ordinary rate outside those windows - verify the time-window logic is in your payroll engine before relying on it.
- Casual penalties differ from FT / PT (different windows, e.g. Mon-Fri 150% before 7am / after 9pm) - captured as configuration keys; resolver must consult employment type when computing penalty rates.
- Apprentice variant enum reuses '4_year' for hairdressing and '3_year' for beauty therapy as a schema workaround. Pre-apprentice and trainee tables (Tables 10-12) not yet seeded.
- Annual leave loading 'greater of 17.5% or weekend penalty' (cl. 24.2) is captured as a configuration key; the comparison is evaluated by the resolver at payslip time.
Setup & special instructions
- Saturday and Sunday penalties only apply within the cl. 23 time windows (Sat 7am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm for FT / PT). Outside those windows, FT / PT ordinary rate applies.
- Cl. 23.3 RDO 4-hour minimum payment - config key seeded; ensure the resolver enforces the floor when an employee is rostered onto their RDO by agreement.
- • Hairdressing
- • Barbering
- • Beauty therapy
- • Nail services
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself - Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
Want to see this award running on your data?
We can demo a pay run on the hair & beauty award using sample employees in a sandbox tenant - including any of the special-instruction steps above so you can see exactly what your team's day-to-day looks like.
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