News and Blogs

The opening up of NSW and Victoria has been a cause for joy and celebration. However, at ABIC we acknowledge that it also brings fresh challenges for our industry and operating a small business. We’re here to work through and navigate these challenges with you.

Queensland current COVID restrictions are changing, here is what we know so far.

Understanding where you or your employee sit in the award classification is important for knowing the correct pay level, find out this important info in this quick 1 minute read blog!

On the 1st of November 2021 stapled superannuation was rolled out in Australia which effects new employees that don't choose a super fund, and obliges employers to request their ‘stapled super fund’ details from ATO. Read this important information in this blog.

How to target more eyes and ears through digital platforms

As was announced by the Fair Work Commission back in June 2021, the National Minimum Wage was due to increase by 2.5%. Although increases to the minimum wage typically occur on 1 July to coincide with the start of the Australian financial year, given the continuing difficulties with the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia for a variety of industries....

Here's what you need to know about reopening in in ACT - Congrats everyone!

For Victorian's our current restrictions end on Thursday 21st October 11.59pm as we reach 70% vaccination rate. Reopening for our industry will happen this Friday 22nd October, and here are all the details you need to know to get back to work, and open your business - including a tailored template for your Covid safe plan, posters and reopening guidelines.

In NSW it is now required that personal services, beauty & aesthetics to complete a COVID-19 Safety Plan. We have created an industry specific example for you to follow and tailor to your business.

There have been many questions and uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 Vaccine Requirements and Exemptions, we answer some of the most pressing in this blog.

Navigating the plethora of seemingly conflicting information can be challenging, confusing and emotionally taxing. In this blog you will find summarised information based on our current understanding of government communication, plus you will see all the answers we are still waiting on!

The ‘Mastering Your Financials’ series has been created to help businesses learn how to achieve financial freedom and grow their profitability with practical, hands-on advice from industry experts. One episode every week LIVE on Facebook.

By Mala McAlpin It’s been a rough few months. As a Sydney-based Beauty Therapist and a student Dermal Clinician, I have desperately missed practicing my skills, offering my beloved facial routines to clients, and helping to solve the riddles of my clients’ skin mysteries with product diagnosis and coming up with treatment plans...

Coinciding with ASDC’s 21st birthday, this year we will also be celebrating what we hope to be an annual event over years to come - introducing National Dermal Clinicians Day! October 1st, 2021 will mark the official launch of what we hope to be an industry-wide celebration of Dermal Clinicians and Dermal Therapists around the country, with businesses and individuals alike taking a moment to acknowledge the achievements of formally-qualified dermal practitioners.

Read about the correspondence, requests and questions put forward to the Government by ABIC on behalf of the Beauty and Aesthetic industry.

To assist clinics during this current crisis the option to subscribe for Elite+ and EliteIQ machines is now being offered to salons who don't have the capital to buy equipment.