Employment Agreement Template (Full-Time & Part-Time) - Beauty Businesses
Hiring your first, or next, team member? Start with a contract that actually sets things up properly.
The Employment Agreement Template (Full-Time & Part-Time) gives beauty businesses a clear, compliant, and industry-specific employment contract covering everything from pay and duties to confidentiality, content use, and post-employment restraints.
For salons, nail studios, lash bars, and treatment-based businesses that want to hire professionally and protect what they've built, from day one.
Employment Agreement Template (Full-Time and Part-Time) – Beauty
Hiring in the beauty industry isn't just about filling a role, it's about protecting your clients, your reputation, and everything you've built.
This template is designed specifically for beauty businesses, with clauses that reflect how salons, nail studios, lash bars, and treatment-based businesses actually operate. It goes well beyond a generic employment contract, covering:
- Client confidentiality and consent requirements
- Treatment scope and hygiene protocols
- Device and equipment use
- Social media content and image rights
- Intellectual property and post-employment restraints
Every section is built to set clear expectations from day one, so your team knows not just what their role is, but how to show up in your business safely, professionally, and to your standards.
About the Template
Lawyer-drafted and peer-reviewed Written in plain English Designed specifically for beauty businesses Fully editable and ready to use
Most beauty business owners customise and send this agreement in under 15 minutes.
What’s included with your purchase
Editable Word template Template User Guide (PDF) Single-business licence
BONUS: Future template updates BONUS: Video walkthrough
Instant digital download.
Beauty-Specific Employee Obligations
This isn't a generic office contract adapted for a salon,it's built from the ground up for how beauty businesses actually operate. Obligations include:
- Client consent and treatment protocols
- Use of salon-approved devices and products only
- Hygiene, infection control, and safety standards
- Content creation guidelines, before and after photos, videos, and social media
- Reporting adverse treatment outcomes
Client & Business Protection Built In
The clauses that matter most in a beauty business are all here:
- Confidentiality of client data and treatment records
- Strict rules around client images and how they can be used
- Intellectual property ownership, including content created by your staff
- Non-compete and non-solicitation protections
Your clients, your content, and your brand, all protected.
Pay, Hours & Leave Structure
Contains the fundamentals around pay, hours and leave entitlements:
- Full-time and part-time employment structures
- Salary, wages, and performance review processes
- Working hours aligned with bookings and trading hours
- Leave entitlements in line with Australian law
Strong Termination & Risk Protection
Includes misconduct provisions specific to the beauty industry, not just standard office scenarios:
- Immediate termination triggers for high-risk behaviour such as performing treatments without consent or serious hygiene breaches
- Notice periods aligned with Fair Work requirements
- Final pay, deductions, and training repayment clauses
Training Investment Protection
If you invest in your team's development, this clause has you covered. Applies to:
- Courses and certifications
- Device and supplier training
- Professional development and education
So, if a staff member leaves shortly after you've funded their training, you're not left out of pocket.
This template is built for beauty business owners who are done with vague agreements and want a contract that actually reflects their industry.
Best for:
- Hair salons, nail studios, lash bars, skin clinics, and treatment-based businesses
- Businesses offering massage, brows and beauty therapy. If you are an APHRA or TGA regulated beauty salon we have separate industry specific templates for you HERE
- Founders moving from informal or verbal arrangements to a proper employment contract
- Business owners who want legal protection that's specific to beauty, not adapted from something generic
Use this template to:
✔ Hire with confidence
✔ Set clear, enforceable expectations from day one
✔ Protect your clients, your content, and your business
✔ Reduce legal and operational risk
✔ Build a professional, structured team
IMPORTANT
Our fill-in-the-blanks templates are not legal advice and do not create a lawyer-client relationship. You are responsible for customising the document to suit your business, role, and team structure.
These templates are designed for use in Australia. If you operate outside Australia, a local legal review is recommended.
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