General Farm Worker

Job description

General worker needed for crawfish and rice farm. Work includes tractor driving, field prep, water maint, fertilize, plant and harvest of crops. Field prep includes operate farm equipment (drive combines, tractors and rice carts to cut/haul rice to bins for drying, clean, shovel and level rice bins), manual shovel work and hoeing of weeds, spot spray and gen farm labor. Help repair and maintain bins, buildings, equip (and change oil, filters and gas), farm, fences, field, levee, ponds, property, roads and shop. Load and unload. May operate motorized crawfish boat and/or walk/push boat. Crawfishing involves manually cutting up of fish bait, set traps, bait and check traps. Grade, may purge, wash, sack, and ice crawfish for shipment, make and repair traps as needed. Pickup/deliver crawfish as required. May deliver crop to coolers or market. Worker must be able to lift/carry 70 lbs. M-F, some Sat/Sun, OT varies. Employees may be compensated above the stated hourly wage, this decision to pay above the prevailing hourly wage will be made by the employer, basing this decision on factors that include the individual recipient's performance and work history. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray and related chemicals and pesticides, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Employer may require post hire, random, upon suspicion or post accident drug testing, all at no cost to employee. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. Job involves stooping, lifting and working outside in inclement weather. Must have 3 mo exp in similar position.

** We are requesting an emergency application waiver request for good and substantial reason due to our initial application H-300-21291-651263/JO # 1165577 being certified on December 1, 2021 for 2 workers in lieu of our actual needed 22 workers . We immediately emailed CNPC and requested a post certification amendment, however we were advised in the email response from CNPC that we should utilize the emergency provisions for the additional 20 workers requested filing a 2nd application. At all times it was our intent to request 22 workers and both our recruitment report and our confirmation email for our ETA 9142 submission both notate the date range of Jan 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022 for 22 workers. As this drastic reduction in workers will cause undue hardship on TD's Crawfish, LLC. (not of employer making as he had intended/requested 22 workers throughout this ETA 9142 H2A application process). I apologize if this error is of my making however, I had believed that this had been notated and corrected once I received the ETA 9142 confirmation with the correct number of workers and date range reflected. This unforseen delay will have significant work related issues for the crawfishing ponds and harvesting for TD's crawfish as there is no way that 2 workers can harvest the volume of crawfish sacks as the originally intended 22 workers. If you would be so kind as to expedite the processing of these 20 workers it would be much appreciated. Any questions please feel free to phone Kelly Couch @ 225-638-7218. Thank you!

Special Requirements

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