Farmworker And Laborer

Job description

This application encompasses work for farmworkers and laborers for corn, alfalfa and triticale.

If employer has had an experience requirement:
This job requires a minimum of (3) months of general farm labor and a valid driver’s license.

The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
General Farm Work will include the following duties:
1. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops
2. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery
3. May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)
4. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds
5. Remove rocks from fields, edges fields, concrete ditches, etc.
6. Build, maintain, repair, farm structures
7. Replace, repair fencing
8. Perform general clean-up of farm areas
9. Drive, unload/load semi-trucks
10. Husk, shell, de-tassel corn
11. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATV’s), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties

Special Requirements

Paychecks
Paychecks are issued biweekly. Workers are responsible for following employers guidance on time keeping for payroll hours. It is forbidden to falsify time records, to clock in or out for another person or to ask someone to clock in or out on someone elses behalf. It is against company policy to pay cash; all pay is issued via company checks.

Pay Stubs
The employer will furnish to the worker on or before each payday a written statement showing the workers total earnings, hourly rate, piece rate, hours of work offered, hours worked, itemization of deductions, units produced if paid by piece rate, beginning and ending dates of pay period, employers name, employers address and employers Federal Identification number in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(k).