Business Summary:

The owner of Curl Up N Dye with Rebecca has been in the industry for 15 years and decided to share her passion by opening her own business located 1/36 Synnot St Werribee Vic 3030. Curl Up N Dye with Rebecca are more than a hair studio. They offer several services, including make-up, tanning, and candles, skincare. In addition, they offer their customers aftercare products to buy online or in-store.

 

Business Hours:

Sunday Closed

Monday Closed

Tuesday 9 am - 5:30 pm

Wednesday 9 am – 5:30 pm

Thursday 9 am – 9 pm

Friday 9 am – 9 pm

Saturday 8 am – 1 pm

 

Personnel information:

Curl Up N Dye with Rebecca has a total number of five employees:

Three Hairdressers: The hairdresser at level 5 earns a $943.60 weekly pay rate. 

Two Apprentices: First-year apprentice earn $314.84 weekly pay rate.  

Fourth-year apprentice earns $809.55 weekly pay rate.

 

Job Opportunities

 

Owner/Manager: Rebecca 

 

Rebecca’s Pathway 

Rebecca holds a Cert IV in hairdressing, first aid certificate, and- (Certificate III in Hairdressing. Certificate IV in Hairdressing. Certificate II salon assistant. )

 In her role as owner/manager she is ultimately responsible for the daily operations of the salon, rostering, and employment of staff. She has been working in the industry for 15 years. However, she has owned and managed her salon for [5 years]. Rebecca works full-time at the salon. 

 

If you are interested in doing more within hairdressing which advanced is the Certificate IV in hairdressing. If you want to be a salon manager or to open your salon, you’ll especially have to take the Advanced Diploma in Hairdressing. It’s designed to build on the knowledge and skills you obtained from the previous certificates, but you could enroll in it without having completed lower-ranked qualifications. Upon completion of the qualification, you’ll have plenty of self-motivation and be able to apply a range of techniques and principles across different contexts and functions. By leaning at work placement.

 

 Payscale: A manager earns a $1440 weekly pay rate.

 

Job Longevity: According to the ABS census, the number of people employed as Hair and Beauty Salon Managers grew very strongly over 5 years. In 2016 a total of 4500 were employed as Hair and Beauty Salon Managers this number rose to 3100 in 2011. COVID would have impacted the number of salons in operation as many were unable to operate during this time. 

 

Duties:


Knowledge/Skills and Alibility:

 

Customer and personal service: Understanding client's needs, providing good service, responding to complaints, and seeking feedback

 

Administration and management: strategic business planning, leadership, coordinating people.

 

 Education and training: seek training course for self and team and conduct training for staff

 

Time management: rostering, booking clients, and managing other salon requirements.

 

Active Listening: Listening to clients' and staff's needs and actively coming to a solution. 

 

Critical thinking: solving problems, leading others to solve problems. 

 

Oral comprehension: Responding to staff and clients

 

Problem spot: can foresee potential problems and actively provide solutions. 

 

 

The knowledge you can learn you can expect to be involved in planning, making important decisions, and leadership or guidance roles concerning workplace products, services, operations, or procedures. You can also expect to receive a higher salary and position. You can also do an Apprenticeship in Hairdressing: An Apprenticeship in hairdressing is when you work as an apprentice at a salon and study a Certificate III at the same time. It combines classroom-based learning and on-the-job training to give you the hairdressing skills you need to succeed. Some hairdressing salons offer work placement and traineeship while you are studying, If you’ve started working part-time at a salon in the evenings or on the weekends while studying at school, you could take a full-time job while gaining a certificate in hairdressing via workplace assessment. If you choose this option, make sure to discuss it with the salon manager. You could get a Diploma in hairdressing After you complete Certificate IV or Advanced Certificate in Hairdressing, you can take the Diploma in Hairdressing, which enables you to further your skills. It can be offered part-time at a college, vocational institution, or via distance learning. This means you can study for and complete it around your day job. Welcome customers and ensure that they're comfortable`

 

 Entitlements:

As owner/manager Rebecca falls under the hairdressing award that this falls under is Hair and Beauty Industry Award [MA000005]. Some of the entitlements that fall under this award are:

 

Sick Leave: each full-time and part-time employee can take paid sick leave. The yearly entitlement is based on an employee’s ordinary hours of work and is 10 days for full-time employees, and pro-rata for part-time employees.

Payslips: Payslips need to be given to all employees within 1 working day of payday even if the employee is on leave. Hours of work breaks. The number of hours worked: Less than 5 hours 0 breaks 0 meals 5 or more hours 2 breaks 1 meal.

Annual Leave: Learn about the types of leave employees, including apprentices, are entitled to, how to request leave, how leave accrues, and what employees are paid when on leave on the following pages:

Superannuation: Money put aside by your employer over your working life for you to live on when you retire from work. Super is important for you, because the more you save, the more money you will have for your retirement.

Long service leave: most full-time, part-time, or casual employees in VIC are entitled to long service leave. By law, there's also a pro-rata entitlement after 5 years if you resign as a result of illness, incapacity, or domestic or other pressing necessity.

Overtime: most full-time, part-time or casual employees in VIC are entitled to overtime. Apprentices however generally work for a minimum of 30 hours per week. The Working Time Regulations state that young workers should not work more than eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and don't normally work at night. 

Pay rates: Pay rates under the Hair and Beauty Award for apprentices start at $11.84 for juniors and $18.94 for adults. Weekends, Public holidays, and Overtime.

Ending employment and notice: A notice period is the length of time that an employee or employer must give to end employment. An apprentice will have to give or get notice of termination when they’re quitting or if they’re fired unless they're: ‘employed for a set period or task or fired for serious misconduct.’

Unpaid work: In the hair and beauty industry, unpaid work arrangements typically include: work trials - testing a person's job skills work experience - giving a personal experience in a job or industry as part of vocational placement. 


Hairdressers:

        PayScale: Hairdresser at level 5 earns a $943.60 weekly pay rate.

 

 

Duties:

 

Knowledge/Skills and Alibility:

 

Customer and personal service: Understanding clients' needs, providing good service, responding to complaints, and seeking feedback for help. 

 

Administration and management: strategic business planning, leadership, coordinating people.

 

 Education and training: seek training courses for self and team and conduct staff training.

 

Time management: rostering, booking clients, and managing other salon requirements.

 

Monitoring: skill level by keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes and improvements. 

 

Critical thinking: solving problems, leading others to solve problems. 

 

Oral comprehension: Responding to staff and clients

 

Problem spot: can foresee potential problems and actively provide solutions. 

 

 

The knowledge you can learn you can expect to be involved in planning, making important decisions, and leadership or guidance roles concerning workplace products, services, operations, or procedures. You can also expect to receive a higher salary and position. You can also do an Apprenticeship in Hairdressing: An Apprenticeship in hairdressing is when you work as an apprentice at a salon and study a Certificate III at the same time. Welcome customers and ensure that they're comfortable`


Entitlements:

 

Sick Leave: An employee may take personal (sick) leave if they are unfit for work due to personal illness or injury. All employees must provide evidence of illness to quality for sick. They get up to 5 days for sick leave. 

Payslips: Payslips need to be given to all employees within 1 working day of payday even if the employee is on leave. Hours of work breaks. Many hours worked: Less than 5 hours 0 breaks 0 meals 5 or more hours 2 breaks 1 meal.

Annual Leave: Annual leave applies to employees under the Hair and Beauty Industry Award, during a period of annual leave an employee must be paid an annual leave loading of 17.5%. A full-time employee is entitled to four weeks annual leave per year based on their ordinary hours of work up to 38 hours a week. 

Superannuation: Money put aside by your employer over your working life for you to live on when you retire from work. Super is important for you, because the more you save, the more money you will have for your retirement.

Long service leaves: most full-time, part-time, or casual employees in VIC are entitled to long service leave. By law, there's also a pro-rata entitlement after 5 years if you resign as a result of illness, incapacity, or domestic or other pressing necessity.

Overtime: most full-time, part-time or casual employees in VIC are entitled to overtime. Apprentices however generally work for a minimum of 30 hours per week. The Working Time Regulations state that young workers should not work more than eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and don't normally work at night. 

Pay rates: Pay rates under the Hair and Beauty Award for apprentices start at $11.84 for juniors and $18.94 for adults. Weekends, Public holidays, and Overtime.

Ending employment and notice: A notice period is the length of time that an employee or employer must give to end employment. An apprentice will have to give or get notice of termination when they’re quitting or if they’re fired unless they're: ‘employed for a set period or task or fired for serious misconduct.’

Unpaid work: In the hair and beauty industry, unpaid work arrangements typically include: work trials - testing a person's job skills work experience - giving a personal experience in a job or industry as part of vocational placement. 


Apprentices: 

        

PayScale: First-year apprentice earns $314.84 weekly pay rate.  

Fourth-year apprentice earns $809.55 weekly pay rate. 

 

Duties:

· Advising clients on suitable cuts, colours, and treatments.

· Recommending suitable hair products.

· Washing, conditioning, cutting, and styling hair.

· Staying up to date with the latest trends, hairstyles, and products.

· Consulting the clients on what they want before a service.


Knowledge/Skills and Alibility:

 

Customer and personal service: Understanding clients' needs, providing good service, responding to complaints, and seeking feedback for help. 

 

Administration and management: strategic business planning, leadership, coordinating people.

 

 Education and training: seek training course for self and team and conduct training for staff

 

Time management: rostering, booking clients, and managing other salon requirements.

 

Serving others: looking for ways to help people.

 

Critical thinking: solving problems, leading others to solve problems. 

 

Oral comprehension: responding to staff and clients

 

Problem spot: can foresee potential problems and actively provide solutions. 

 

 Entitlements:

 

Sick Leave: An employee may take personal (sick) leave if they are unfit for work due to personal illness or injury. All employees must provide evidence of illness to quality for sick. They get up to 5 days for sick leave. 

Payslips: Payslips need to be given to all employees within 1 working day of payday even if the employee is on leave. Hours of work breaks. The number of hours worked: Less than 5 hours 0 breaks 0 meals 5 or more hours 2 breaks 1 meal.

Annual Leave: Annual leave applies to employees under the Hair and Beauty Industry Award, during a period of annual leave an employee must be paid an annual leave loading of 17.5%. A full-time employee is entitled to four weeks annual leave per year based on their ordinary hours of work up to 38 hours a week. Apprentices are entitled to at least 28 days of annual leave per year and have the same right to Statutory sick pay as regular employees. 

Long service leaves: The apprentice or worker is not required to pay for long service leave. It is a scheme set up for the workers, all contribution charges to the long service leave fund come from construction employers in Victoria. 

Overtime: Young workers should not work more than eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and don't normally work at night.

Pay rates: Pay rates under the Hair and Beauty Award for apprentices start at $11.84 for juniors and $18.94 for adults. Weekends, Public holidays, and Overtime. First-year apprentices earn a $314.84 weekly pay rate.  

Ending employment and notice: An apprentice will have to give or get notice of termination when they’re quitting or if they’re fired unless they're: ‘employed for a set time or task or fired for serious misconduct.

Unpaid work: Apprentices must be paid for all the time they've worked, including; time worked at the salon, opening and closing the salon, compulsory out-of-hours activities.


General Pathway Information 

When you complete the Diploma in Hairdressing, you’ll be capable of taking initiative and making sound judgments across a range of technical and management functions. You’ll also gain personal responsibility and be able to work semi-independently when performing hairdressing tasks or organising other people in the workplace. You can take the certificate either full-time or part-time at a university or a TAFE. After you finish it you can take Certificate II in Hairdressing. The certificate II Hairdressing teaches you the skills you need to practice as a hairdresser. If you want to work at a salon this qualification may be all that is required for you including the first certificate depending on which state, you are living in. You can get an apprenticeship in Hairdressing to work as a hairdresser. 


Certificate II in hairdressing the qualification includes the basics which are how to: 

- Prepare a client for salon services

- Coordinate salon services

- Remove chemicals from a client’s hair

- Make appointments and handle client schedules

- Sell products and services

- Diagnose a client’s hair and scalp conditions

- Treat hair and scalp

- Cut hair

- Dress and style hair

- Curl, straighten or strengthen hair

- Colour hair

- Coordinate the salon team

- Maintain a clean and efficient workplace

- Receive and consult with clients

 

Certificate IV advanced Diploma in hairdressing some qualifications include:

 

Certificate II advanced Diploma in hairdressing some qualifications include:

 

OHS Management

Under the Occupational Health & Safety Act 2004, information regarding the health and safety of employees and clients needs to be communicated. The protocols used within this salon are listed but are not limited to:  

• SDS: 

Obtain current manufacturers/importers’ Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for each product and put a copy in the register. SDS is accessible to employees. The SDS is accessible for the staff, they provide important information on the safe storage, use, and waste of hazardous chemicals. The SDS covers the categories of products commonly used in hairdressing salons. The SDS tells you how to safely handle a product. It provides information for workers and professionals to help them make decisions and to prevent deal with emergencies. 

Team meeting:

The salon holds meetings to make sure that all the employees hear about all the OHS that is required, the meeting is held once a week. This is to cover the basic rights in the salon and to make sure that all the employees are on the same page. 

Signage: 

There is signage all around the salon to maintain the safety of not only them but others. These include the Wet floor, which is located at the wash bay, to make sure all employees know that hair has been washed and the floor is currently wet. A fire extinguisher, located above the entrance, is to notify if there is a fire to use the fire extinguisher. Exit, located at the back and front door to make sure in case of an emergency to please use the doors. Rebecca the owner contacts the Authority in case something is happening, and they come to do regular checks of the salon. 

 

Representatives come in every 4 months to check how the salon is going and if anything needs to be fixed. 

OHS Roles and Responsibilities

It is an employer’s duty of care to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of their employees and other people who might be affected by their business. Employers must do whatever is reasonably practicable to achieve this. 

Owner/Manager: 

Employers should be able to demonstrate they have carefully considered the questions raised in this guide and have taken all reasonable steps to eliminate or reduce employee exposures to substances used in the workplace.

 

Roles and responsibilities: 

 

Manager: Accomplishes department objectives by managing staff; planning and evaluating department activities.

 

Responsibilities and Rights of a Salon Employee:

- Salon employees have certain rights under the law. A major one is a right not to face discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, weight, marital status, family status, part-time work status, or union membership status, either indirectly, directly, unintentionally, or intentionally. This means that employers cannot ask job applicants any questions about the above topics, nor can they use such criteria to determine pay. The responsibility of the employee insofar as this topic is concerned is to not discriminate against either customers, other employees, or their employer.