Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop

Job description

Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor.
Harvesting Passion Fruit; Once at the picking location, doing a row at at time, workers will be picking passion fruit directly from the vine, ensuring the fruit is fully ripe on the inside. Workers will identify the maturity of the passion fruit by checking color, texture, weight, wrinkling, aroma and moisture content. At times fruit may drop from the vine and will be picked up immediately to ensure fruit has an optimal taste. Workers must avoid harvesting unripe fruit. Fruit should be harvested by using a sharp knife or clippers off the vine at around 1.75 inch 2.25 inches long to prevent waterloss. Fruit will be placed in a bucket or basket and carefully avoiding to bruise or scratch the fruit.
Passion fruit should never be harvested when wet, as this will encourage the spread of disease.

Passion Fruit Packing: Trucks will take the harvested passion fruit to the packing house which is located inside the farm, workers will pick out the fruit that will be used for seed the rest of the fruit will be separated by size, labeled and packed.

Field Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe, workers will remove dead plants and weeds.

The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provide the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.

Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available, the worker is not required to work more than the stated daily hours in the contract and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays 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 any time throughout the season. If workers request a leave of absence during the contract period, if the worker has been offered an opportunity to work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA-790 for the purposes of the three-quarter guarantee.

A copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.

Special Requirements

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.