Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop

Job description

Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor.
Duties may vary from time to time, workers will harvest, load, grade jalapeno peppers and bell peppers. The worker will require use of hand tools such as shears and knives. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting to 60 lbs. Workers will pick peppers based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures.
Pepper Planting: the worker will be given several trays of pepper plants. Walking down each row in the field, the workers will place each plant from the tray in a hole in the ground until the tray is empty and return the empty tray to the tray location and retrieve a new full tray of plants and the worker will repeat the process.
Pepper Harvesting (all): Workers will move down assigned row and pick proper size, shape and color of pepper, place into bucket. When full, take to field truck, receive credit on his/her badge and obtain empty bucket and repeat the process.
General Farm Work: Tasks the worker must be able to perform include: Staking, stringing, field cleanup including cutting and removing string from stakes, removing stakes and stacking them on a field truck, tying, pulling plastic off of the beds and putting it in a baler; using a shovel to finish plastic bed ends and install drainage inlets to field ditches; irrigation maintenance, ride on plastic laying machine and maintain operation of drip tape and plastic rolls; remove debris, weeding, shovel work, discarded plant materials, or other items to maintain a clean growing area, wash harvest buckets with provided cleaner and brushes.

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. Employer may deduct the reasonable cost of damages and/or replacement of tools and/or equipment if such repair or replacement results from willful neglect or gross negligence after the damage has occurred and after gaining the employee's written authorization to make the deduction.

Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available, there is a possibility that available work hours will be in excess of 20% of the hours offered but they are not guaranteed, 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.