IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING WAGES FOR TEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL JOBS
The Department of Labor recently announced new minimum wage rates, called Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs), that employers must offer and pay, at the time work is performed, to nonimmigrant H-2A workers and workers in corresponding employment beginning on the effective date of the new wage rates. To see the new hourly AEWRs for non-range occupations (effective January 1, 2023) and the national monthly AEWR for herding or production of livestock work on the range (effective January 1, 2023), please visit: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages/adverse-effect-wage-rates
Farmworker and Laborer, Crop
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard, LLP
Thurmont, MD
$16.55 per hour
Recruitment Information
- Telephone Number to Apply:
- +12405783831
- Email address to Apply:
- info@catoctinbreeze.com
Job Description
- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest fruits and viticultural specialties. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, mulching and applying fertilizers; planting, transplanting, weeding, trimming, leaf pulling, shoot thinning, or pruning crops; harvesting products; or cleaning, grading, and loading harvested products. May construct and repair trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. May assist with cleaning and sanitizing processing equipment.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
The job/industry classification and description includes general information on the position from ONET/OES and the North American Industry Classification System. Please review Job Duties and Job Order for more information.
Job Requirements
- Experience Required:
- Yes
- Months of Experience Required:
- 3
- Special Requirements:
- During busy planting/harvest season workers may be requested to start earlier and work more than the scheduled 40 hours per week, including holidays. When weather is hot, starting and quitting times maybe shifted to earlier or later in the day. This may vary depending on weather conditions.
- Number of Hours Per Week:
- 40
- Work Schedule (Start/End time):
- 7:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Employer Information
- Company Name:
- Catoctin Breeze Vineyard, LLP
- Location:
- Thurmont, MD 21788
- Telephone Number:
- +12405783831
Worksite
- Address:
- 15010 Roddy Road, Thurmont, MD 21788
Job Order Details
- ETA Case Number:
- H-300-23017-707265
- Multiple Worksites:
- No
- Date Posted:
- 2/1/2023