Nursery Worker

Job description

Perform general nursery work activities, including a combination of the following duties: harvest plants and transplant or pot and label them; set up and operate irrigation equipment; sell and deliver trees, shrubs and perennials to customers; sow grass seed or plant plugs of grass; dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs; dig, rake, and screen soil; move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees using wheelbarrows or tractors; plant, spray, weed, fertilize, water, and prune plants, shrubs, and tress using gardening tools. Some OT may be required. Driving golf carts, tractors, bobcats, skidsteers, or Gators around the nursery yard to pick up and move products around the yard maybe be required. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. consistently on a daily basis. Hours may be varied based on weather.

Under the FLSA, the planting of trees and bushes is within the scope of agriculture where it constitutes a step in the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of agricultural or horticultural commodities, or where it constitutes a practice performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with farming operations. Thus, employees of the nurseryman who raised such nursery stock are doing agricultural work where they plant the stock on private or public property, trim, spray, brace, and treat the planted stock, or perform other duties incidental to its care and preservation.

Accordingly, nursery workers may, from time to time, travel offsite to perform the above-described duties which are incidental to the cultivation and harvest of trees, such as installation of the trees which they cultivate at the worksite.

Special Requirements

Some overtime required, including work on Saturdays.