Landscape Laborer

Job description

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Lay sod, mow, trim, plant, weeding, watering, dig holes with shovel, rake, blow leaves; spread grass seed, fertilizer and mulch; sprinkler installation/repair, installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. Maintain equipment to ensure proper functioning. May drive company truck to transport crews, plants, materials and tools to/from or at worksites.

Employer will offer a minimum 35 hours of work per week. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm. Workdays and shift may vary depending on weather conditions and workload. Possible work on Saturdays.

Special Requirements

No minimum education or experience required.
Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
Must pass a post-employment criminal background check, paid by employer and applied equally to all workers, U.S. and foreign/H-2B.
Applicants must complete an employment application.
Must be able to work 5-day work schedule.
Must be ablet to work weekends and holidays as needed.

If the worker completes 50 percent of the work contract period, the employer will arrange and pay directly for transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of work. Upon completion of the work contract or where the worker is dismissed earlier, the employer will provide or pay for workers reasonable costs of return transportation and subsistence back home or to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer or where the employer has appropriately reported a workers voluntary abandonment of employment. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. Daily meals will be provided at a rate of at least $15.88 per day during travel to a maximum of $59 per day with receipts. If necessary, employer will reimburse worker within first pay period for approved cost of meals and lodging at the applicable exchange rate, not to exceed reasonable costs. Receipts must be submitted.

The employer will reimburse H-2B workers in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees).

The employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period.

We pay employees who perform the work that the H-2B employees perform on a daily rate, as permitted by 29 CFR 778.112. In such a week where overtime is worked, the employees would then be paid the additional half-time overtime premium for overtime hours. The additional half-time premium for overtime hours is permissible because the daily rate itself constitutes the straight time pay for all hours worked. For overtime hours, all that remains to be paid is the additional half-time. See 29 CFR 778.112, which says: "If the employee is paid a flat sum for a day's work or for doing a particular job, without regard to the number of hours worked in the day or at the job, and if he receives no other form of compensation for services, his regular rate is determined by totaling all the sums received at such day rates or job rates in the workweek and dividing by the total hours actually worked. He is then entitled to extra half-time pay at this rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in the workweek."