Single Touch Payroll software for Shearers and Crutchers.

e-PayDay Go® cloud Single Touch Payroll software includes the Pastoral Award [MA000035], which covers employers in the pastoral industry, including shearers and crutchers. We also provide the Schedule 2 – Tax table for individuals employed in the horticultural or shearing industry, ensuring the correct tax calculations.

The pastoral industry means employers and employees who work in (or are connected to) the:​

• managing, breeding, rearing or grazing of livestock or poultry

• shearing and crutching of sheep on farms

• classing and pressing of wool on farms

• dairying work

• hatchery work

• sowing, raising or harvesting of broadacre field crops and other crops grown as part of any of the mentioned farms or properties

• treating of land concerning the work above, or

• clearing, fencing, well sinking, dam sinking or trenching on any farm or property above.

• Livestock refers to all animals used in primary production, including insects.

Broadacre field crops means grains, seeds, grasses, silage, legumes, fibre, flowers, and other crops grown as part of a broadacre mixed farming enterprise.

Examples of employees covered by the Pastoral Award include:

• station hands

• piggery workers

• dairy operators

• poultry workers

• shearers and crutchers

• station cooks.​