Published Date:
07 May 2009
SHEEP producers are welcoming news that New Zealand and Australian shearing gangs will be working as usual in the UK this summer following a review of new work permit regulations.
The British Wool Marketing Board expressed deep concern last month when the new regulations meant that shearers wanting to come to the UK would have to wait up to nine weeks for their applications to be processed – a situation that was set to deter hundreds of southern hemisphere shearers from making their traditional summer trip to the UK.
But several concessions have been made regarding the new rules which will now allow New Zealand and Australian shearers to have their applications processed within 15 days, following industry-wide representations made to the UK government.
BWMB chairman Frank Langrish said: "We're very pleased that the Home Office reacted swiftly to the farming industry's calls to make concessions to the shearers who always come to the UK each summer to shear large numbers of sheep. Thankfully a welfare crisis has been averted."
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Last Updated:
07 May 2009 4:44 PM
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Location:
Alnwick, Northumberland
