Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Sweet Potatoes: Workers will transplant, pull weeds, and harvest sweet potatoes in the fields indicated. Transplanting sweet potatoes plants into the soil by hand and machine. Pulling weeds by hand in sweet potatoes fields. The worker will pick the potatoes up by hand into buckets. These buckets will be carried to a truck in the fields with empty bin boxes.

Tobacco Harvesting: Harvest tobacco by hand (workers will pull 3 or 4 leaves at a time from each plant and put it in a trailer.) Once it reaches the barn, the worker will place the tobacco in boxes to prepare for the heating process. After curing process the worker will remove the tobacco and bale it by filling a metal container to desired weight that will compact the leaves together into bales.

Bucket Loading/Unloading: Worker will be standing inside the plastic or wood boxes and receiving full buckets of sweet potatoes from the other workers that harvesting loading and unloading buckets full of sweet potatoes into the plastic or wood boxes. Workers are required to lift and carry at least 35 pounds.

Soybean Field Weeding: Workers will walk through the soybean fields and pull weeds.

General Farm Labor: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on farm property, on structures utilized in the operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the weeding, trimming, digging, cutting, topping, irrigation repair, debris removal, housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. Safely operate the buses to transport co-workers to and from the housing locations listed within this request to work-sites addresses contained within the request. Workers are paid at the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.

Workers are required to have at least (1) one month of verifiable harvesting experience. The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.

Special Requirements

Drug/Alcohol Testing: EB Harvesting may conduct a drug test post-employment at the employer's expense. Per the Department of Labor O-Net survey for job code 45.2092.02, Job Zone 1, SVP <4.0, the employer requires 1 month verifiable harvesting experience.