Farm Worker Labor

Job description

Tools and Equipment:
The employer will furnish, without charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required in the performance of the specified work. Workers will be charged for any willful damage or loss of such tools and equipment.

HORTICULTURAL/ SOD FARM:
Workers may apply seeds to fields, by hand or equipment.
Workers may clean and prepare fields for planting.
Workers may water and apply fertilizers, as needed.
Workers may cultivate fields, by hand or equipment.
Workers may clip or mow sod fields.
Workers may cut, roll, stack, and prepare sod for shipping.
Workers may roll sod and load and unload trucks.
Workers may work fields to prepare for next crop.
Workers may clean work area for next day’s work.
Workers may clean and prepare fields and equipment for the next crop.
Workers may transfer sod rolls, from sod harvester to pallet.
Workers may transfer sod rolls onto trucks and help tarp trucks.

Special Requirements

Other Related Duties:
Workers may chop weeds from between plants with a hoe.
Workers may remove tops and suckers from plants and apply fertilizers.
Alternative Work:
This could include workers preparing barns, preparing land for planting, draining fields, maintenance of tools and equipment, and other work that is directly related to growing crop and activities for which the worker was hired. Such work will be offered when climate or crop conditions preclude working in the primary activities stated above. Alternative work may only be required if the first week wage guarantee listed in 20 CFR 653.501 is invoked.
General Conditions:
Workers will begin at an assigned time, 7:00 am and continue until 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. If work is available beyond normal workdays the employer may offer, but not require, the worker the opportunity to work additional hours. Workers are not required to work the Sabbath Day or Federal Holidays.