2025 WAIRC 00559
Hair and Beauty Industry (WA) Award

1B. – MINIMUM ADULT AWARD WAGE

(1) No employee aged 21 or more shall be paid less than the minimum adult award wage unless otherwise provided by this clause.

(2) The minimum adult award wage for full-time employees aged 21 or more working under an award that provides for a 38-hour week is $953.00 per week.

The minimum adult award wage for full-time employees aged 21 or more working under awards that provide for other than a 38-hour week is calculated as follows: divide $953.00 by 38 and multiply by the number of ordinary hours prescribed for a full-time employee under the award.

The minimum adult award wage is payable from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2025.

(3) The minimum adult award wage is deemed to include all State Wage order adjustments from State Wage Case decisions.

(4) Unless otherwise provided in this clause adults aged 21 or more employed as casuals, part-time employees or piece workers or employees who are remunerated wholly on the basis of payment by results, shall not be paid less than pro rata the minimum adult award wage according to the hours worked.

(5) Employees under the age of 21 shall be paid no less than the wage determined by applying the percentage prescribed in the junior rates provision in this award (if applicable) to the minimum adult award wage, provided that no employee shall be paid less than any applicable minimum rate of pay prescribed by the Minimum Conditions of Employment Act 1993.

(6) The minimum adult award wage shall not apply to apprentices, employees engaged on traineeships or government approved work placement programs or employed under the Commonwealth Government Supported Wage System or to other categories of employees who by prescription are paid less than the minimum award rate, provided that no employee shall be paid less than any applicable minimum rate of pay prescribed by the Minimum Conditions of Employment Act 1993.

(7) Liberty to apply is reserved in relation to any special category of employees not included here or otherwise in relation to the application of the minimum adult award wage.

(8) Subject to this clause the minimum adult award wage shall –

(a) Apply to all work in ordinary hours.

(b) Apply to the calculation of overtime and all other penalty rates, superannuation, payments during any period of paid leave and for all purposes of this award.

(9) Minimum Adult Award Wage

The rates of pay in this award include the minimum weekly wage for employees aged 21 or more payable under the 2025 State Wage order. Any increase arising from the insertion of the minimum wage will be offset against any equivalent amount in rates of pay received by employees whose wages and conditions of employment are regulated by this award which are above the wage rates prescribed in the award. Such above award payments include wages payable pursuant to enterprise agreements, consent awards or award variations to give effect to enterprise agreements and over award arrangements. Absorption which is contrary to the terms of an agreement is not required.

Increases under previous State Wage Case Principles or under the current Statement of Principles, excepting those resulting from enterprise agreements, are not to be used to offset the minimum wage.

(10) Adult Apprentices

(10)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this clause, the minimum adult apprentice wage for a full-time apprentice aged 21 years or more working under an award that provides for a 38-hour week is $791.30 per week.

(10)(b) The minimum adult apprentice wage for a full-time apprentice aged 21 years or more working under an award that provides for other than a 38-hour week is calculated as follows: divide $791.30 by 38 and multiply by the number of ordinary hours prescribed for a full-time apprentice under the award.

(10)(c) The minimum adult apprentice wage is payable from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2025.

(10)(d) Adult apprentices aged 21 years or more employed on a part-time basis shall not be paid less than pro rata the minimum adult apprentice wage according to the hours worked.

(10)(e) The rates paid in the paragraphs above to an apprentice 21 years of age or more are payable on superannuation and during any period of paid leave prescribed by this award.

(10)(f) Where in this award an additional rate is expressed as a percentage, fraction or multiple of the ordinary rate of pay, it shall be calculated upon the rate prescribed in this award for the actual year of apprenticeship.



18. – WAGES

(1) (a) The minimum wage payable for ordinary hours to employees bound by this Award from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2025 shall be as follows:

Classification
Weekly Rate ($)
Hourly Rate ($)
Hair and Beauty employee Level 1
996.40
26.22
Hair and Beauty employee Level 2
1019.20
26.82
Hair and Beauty employee Level 3
1,055.10
27.77
Hair and Beauty employee Level 4
1,074.60
28.28
Hair and Beauty employee Level 5
1,106.90
29.13
Hair and Beauty employee Level 6
1,146.30
30.17

(b) A casual employee is entitled to be paid a 20 per cent loading on the hourly rate for the applicable classification specified in subclause (1)(a) for all hours worked.

(c) In addition to the rates of pay in subclauses (1)(a) and 1(b), an employer must pay an employee the following penalty rates for work performed during ordinary hours:

Time of hours worked
Full time and part time employees
Casual employees

% of hourly rate
% of hourly rate
(inclusive of casual loading)
Saturday – all hours
33%
53%
Easter Saturday – all hours
50%
70%
Sunday – all hours
100%
120%
Rostered day off – all hours
100%
120%
Public holiday – all hours
150%
170%

(2) Apprentices: (Percentage of the appropriate Hair and Beauty employee Level 3 rate of wage per week).

(a) THREE YEAR TERM


%
First Year
50
Second Year
70
Third Year
85

(b) The hourly rates of pay for school-based apprentices and part-time apprentices shall be in accordance with the “General Order to establish Wage Structures for school-based and part-time apprentices”: [2007] WAIRC 00382 (2007) 87 WAIG 735.

(3) Early Finishes

Where a permanent employee is advised that they will be required to work until a specified time, the employee shall be entitled to be paid until that specified time, notwithstanding that the employer may allow the employee to leave early.

(4) Duties

An employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties as are within the limits of the employee’s skill, competence and training.

(5) Adult Apprentices

In the case of an apprentice aged 21 years or over, where the rate of wage determined by the application of paragraphs (a) or (b) of subclause (2) is less than the minimum wage for adults as prescribed by the Commission from time to time in General Orders, that minimum wage shall apply in lieu of the rates otherwise applicable by the application of this subclause.

(6) Apprentice Assessment

Notwithstanding that the term of the apprenticeship shall have expired, an employee shall continue to receive the wage payable in the last year of apprenticeship until the employee has been assessed as achieving the necessary trade skills outlined in the Trade Training Schedule and a final Trade Certificate has been issued.

(7) No reduction

Despite the provisions of this award, an existing employee (including a casual employee) as at [insert the relevant date the updated award comes into effect] who continues to be employed with the same employer after that date must not be paid less than they would have been paid for the same work under the provisions of the award as it stood prior to that date.


25. – LOCATION ALLOWANCE

(1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, in addition to the rates prescribed in the wages clause of this Award, an employee shall be paid the following weekly allowances when employed in the towns prescribed hereunder. Provided that where the wages are prescribed as fortnightly rates of pay, these allowances shall be shown as fortnightly allowances.

TOWN
PER WEEK


Agnew
$25.90
Argyle
$70.00
Balladonia
$27.20
Barrow Island
$45.60
Boulder
$11.10
Broome
$41.90
Bullfinch
$12.10
Carnarvon
$21.50
Cockatoo Island
$45.80
Coolgardie
$11.10
Cue
$26.70
Dampier
$36.50
Denham
$21.50
Derby
$43.50
Esperance
$7.40
Eucla
$29.10
Exmouth
$38.50
Fitzroy Crossing
$52.90
Halls Creek
$61.40
Kalbarri
$9.40
Kalgoorlie
$11.10
Kambalda
$11.10
Karratha
$44.10
Koolan Island
$45.80
Koolyanobbing
$12.10
Kununurra
$70.00
Laverton
$26.60
Learmonth
$38.50
Leinster
$25.90
Leonora
$26.60
Madura
$28.20
Marble Bar
$68.20
Meekatharra
$23.10
Mount Magnet
$29.00
Mundrabilla
$28.70
Newman
$24.90
Norseman
$23.30
Nullagine
$68.10
Onslow
$45.60
Pannawonica
$33.90
Paraburdoo
$33.80
Port Hedland
$36.40
Ravensthorpe
$13.60
Roebourne
$50.80
Sandstone
$25.90
Shark Bay
$21.50
Southern Cross
$12.10
Telfer
$62.50
Teutonic Bore
$25.90
Tom Price
$33.80
Whim Creek
$43.60
Wickham
$42.00
Wiluna
$26.10
Wyndham
$65.40



(2) Except as provided in subclause (3) of this clause, an employee who has:

(a) a dependant shall be paid double the allowance prescribed in subclause (1) of this clause;

(b) a partial dependant shall be paid the allowance prescribed in subclause (1) of this clause plus the difference between that rate and the amount such partial dependant is receiving by way of a district or location allowance.

(3) Where an employee:

(a) is provided with board and lodging by their employer, free of charge; or

(b) is provided with an allowance in lieu of board and lodging by virtue of the award or an order or agreement made pursuant to the Act;

such employee shall be paid 66 2/3 per cent of the allowances prescribed in subclause (1) of this clause.

(4) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, junior employees, casual employees, part-time employees, apprentices receiving less than adult rate and employees employed for less than a full week shall receive that proportion of the location allowance as equates with the proportion that their wage for ordinary hours that week is to the adult rate for the work performed.

(5) Where an employee is on annual leave or receives payment in lieu of annual leave they shall be paid for the period of such leave the location allowance to which they would ordinarily be entitled.

(6) Where an employee is on long service leave or other approved leave with pay (other than annual leave) they shall only be paid location allowance for the period of such leave they remain in the location in which they are employed.

(7) For the purposes of this clause:

(a) “Dependant” shall mean -

(i) a spouse or defacto partner; or

(ii) a child where there is no spouse or defacto partner;

who does not receive a location allowance or who, if in receipt of a salary or wage package, receives no consideration for which the location allowance is payable pursuant to the provisions of this clause.

(b) “Partial Dependant” shall mean a “dependant” as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subclause who receives a location allowance which is less than the location allowance prescribed in subclause (1) of this clause or who, if in receipt of a salary or wage package, receives less than a full consideration for which the location allowance is payable pursuant to the provisions of this clause.

(8) Where an employee is employed in a town or location not specified in this clause the allowance payable for the purpose of subclause (1) of this clause shall be such amount as may be agreed between Australian Mines and Metals Association, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia and UnionsWA or, failing such agreement, as may be determined by the Commission.

(9) Subject to the making of a General Order pursuant to s.50 of the Act, that part of each location allowance representing prices shall be varied from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after the 1st day in July of each year in accordance with the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (excluding housing) for Perth, measured to the end of the immediately preceding March quarter, the calculation to be taken to the nearest ten cents.