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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

6

Job Duties:

Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Plants, cultivates, and harvests vegetables and fruits. Works on planter, plant roots, seeds, and bulbs. May spread and remove plastic or other ground covering. Weeds and thins plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May set poles and wires for vine plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crops to harvest them. Must be able to lift 60 lbs. consistently on a daily basis. May tie vegetables in bunches or top them. May assist with irrigation. May operate and help maintain tractors or hand-operated equipment. May assist with general farm building maintenance. Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation, power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, and other farm equipment. Alternative work can be general labor and maintenance activities including cleaning/stacking supplies, pulling weeds, cutting fire wood, fence, mending, clearing fence rows, mowing, weeding, and all other lawn care maintenance of surrounding buildings located on the farm. Additional alternative work includes irrigation and fertilization, cleaning and maintaining migrant housing and farm buildings, the repair and maintenance tools and equipment, and any general farm labor required by employer. Work may begin as early as 5:00 a.m. and may conclude as late as 8:00 p.m. The regular workweek is nine hours per day, Monday- Saturday for the full period of employment. Workers will report to work at the designated time and place as directed by the employer each day. Workers may be requested to work various amount of hours per day depending upon the conditions in the fields and maturity of the crops ,but will not be required to work over the regular daily hours. Also, the workers may be requested, but not required, to work on federal holidays and on their Sabbath. All work will be paid at the adverse effect wage rate (AEWR) or the prevailing wage, whichever is higher. Payment of the new AEWR becomes effective on the date specified in the Federal Register. American workers shall be provided the number of hours of work identified on the job order in A.6. for the week beginning with the anticipated start date of need identified in A.3., pursuant to 653.51(d)(2)(v)(A), unless an amendment to the start date is approved. The worker agrees to work for employer whenever work is available during the full period of employment. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop, or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. The slow times should be understood upon accepting job offer.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Job requirements are physically demanding for this job order. Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity. Temperatures may range as high as 100 degrees F. Workers will work on their feet and in bent or stooped positions for long periods of time. Workers must be able to lift 60 lbs. consistently on a daily basis. Workers may be required to obtain a valid driver's license. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Work is to be done in the field for long periods of time. Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing, and loading of product. Workers will assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. Workers will supply their own work clothes. The employer may assign workers to multiple tasks within the same day. Description of duties may change on a daily basis at the sole judgment of the employer.

Number of Hours Per Week:

58

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Rainbow Farms

Company Name:

Rainbow Farms NPO LLC

Location:

Madison, OH 44057

Worksite

Address:

2464 Townline Road, Madison, OH 44057

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24009-628900

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/6/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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