Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
2131 Fort Road
Toppenish, WA 98948
United States
Job description
This application encompasses raising, growing and harvest of apples, grapes and hops as well as pruning, training and other orchard, strawberry crop and hop farm labor.
This job requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor.
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
All other duties assigned under this order will be those duties of Farm Worker and Laborer Crop, Nursery and Greenhouse, under the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics Standard Occupational Classification Code 45-2092.
The anticipated hours listed represent the normal work schedule. Due to the nature of these crops, weather, and the requirement to send crops to customers when needed, it is the prevailing practice to work more or different hours than those listed. When the number of hours for a week exceeds the number listed, the worker may be offered, but not required, to work more hours. Saturday work may be required. Employer-paid drug test is required if a worker has an accident at work.
Field work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work may be performed during rain, light snow, cold, freezing temperatures and/or in high humidity and in temperatures over a 100 degrees F. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions.
Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the harvest process throughout the workday. Workers must work at a sustained, vigorous pace and make bona-fide efforts to work efficiently and consistently that are reasonable under the climatic and all other working conditions.
Special Requirements
Additional Wage Information:
In the event that the applicable H-2A wage rate decreases for any reason during the employers positive recruitment or H-2A contract period in the instant job order, the employer reserves the right to decrease its offered/paid hourly wage to the new, lower wage rate, as long as the new lower wage rate remains the highest of the AEWR, the prevailing hourly wage or piece rate, an agreed-upon collective bargaining wage, and the federal and state minimum wages in effect at the time work subject to the provisions of this job order is performed.