A person who employs a group of shearers and who enters into a contract with an owner to shear sheep.
shearing contractors throughout the region are struggling to recruit shearers
Example sentencesExamples
- Police are working with local shearing contractors to ensure future shearing seasons aren't marred by booze-fuelled brawls.
- Shearing contractors in the south have been told they must unite to stamp out drugs, which are said to be rife in the industry.
- Expenses include wages paid to shearers, classers and shed hands, and payments made to shearing contractors.
- A well-attended meeting of shearing contractors voted unanimously to form the organisation.
- A shearing contractor from the central west said something had to be done because the young rural workforce had become miners.
- He was the son of a shearing contractor, and could not read or write until he was 15.
- Shearing contractors have had a very busy two months as pre lamb shearing has clashed with the heavy lamb harvest.
- Note that shearing contractors are not employees subject to PAYE deductions.
- He is a former shearer and shearing contractor who has a mixed farm in New South Wales.
- There were disagreements between the AWU and shearing contractors over the perennial problem of wet sheep.