AP792378CRV - Pastoral Industry Award 1998
[29 renumbered as 28 by PR900617 from 12Dec00]
28.1 The total number of sheep to be shorn (or crutched) at the shearing (or crutching) shall not be more than the maximum number agreed upon nor less than the minimum number agreed upon nor shall the number of shearers employed exceed the number agreed upon.
28.2 Subject to this award, the employer shall be ready to commence shearing (or crutching) on the date appointed and will keep the shearers (or crutchers) fully supplied with sheep until the completion of the shearing (or crutching). But the employer shall not be bound to furnish the agreed minimum number of sheep or to be so ready or to so keep the
employee fully supplied if prevented therefrom by any cause unavoidable by him; provided, however, that the employer shall inform the employee, as soon as is reasonably possible, whether, and to what extent, the employee will be or is likely to be so prevented.
Provided also that when the employer is a contractor shearing or crutching sheep under contract with an owner or the owners agent, the failure of the owner or agent to keep the contractor supplied with sheep for shearing (crutching) shall not be deemed to be a cause unavoidable by the contractor unless the owner or agent is prevented from supplying sheep because of any unavoidable cause.
