The phrase "hired man" is correct and can be used in written English to refer to a man employed to do tasks such as manual labor or farm work.
For example, "The Smiths had a hired man working the farm this summer."
The New Yorker, August 27, 1932 P. 13 The writer tells about his negro hired man, Barney Haller.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, August 27, 1932 P. 13 The writer tells about his negro hired man, Barney Haller.
But the primary cause of Eamon's bottomless irritation is the newly hired man on the job, an African immigrant, Laurence (Ato Essandoh).
THE HIRED MAN, by Aminatta Forna (Atlantic Monthly).
They evacuated their home with the help of two hired men to escape the landslide, but all seven Willeys and the two hired men died in the avalanche.
There are no victims or criminals — just hired men.
Kids got attached to dogs and blankets and maybe even hired men.
Ferrari hired men from the villages around Maranello, capitalising on a regional tradition of artisanship.
He brought in Ernest Breech, from Bendix, and hired men known as the whiz kids — Charles Thornton, Robert McNamara, Arjay Miller, and J. Edward Lundy.
At several homes that rejected her, she said, she later found out that they had hired men.
She hired men to handle some of the finishing work on her vessels, daggers, jewelry, andirons, stained-glass windows, light fixtures and garden gates.
