Farm Laborer

Job description

Workers will plant various ornamental shrubs and landscape-type trees such as oak, holly, cypress, ligustrum, palms, and pine trees. Workers will make potting soil for plants, lay down fabric for potted plants, remove diseased plants, replant ornamental shrubs, transplant plants. They will use Bush Hog to mow in between rows of plants/trees. Duties also include harvesting pine needles. Other duties include cleaning land, weeding, repairing fences, barn and buildings on the farm, as well as general farm labor. Work will be done under extreme weather conditions and physical conditions such as heavy bending, stooping and lifting.

The employer will provide the tools and equipment necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools and equipment.

Special Requirements

Ten (10) hours per day, Monday through Friday is normal, however, the worker may be requested but not required to work additional hours per day and Saturday, Sunday, the Sabbath, and/or federal holidays depending upon the conditions of the crop, weather, maturity of the crop and market conditions.

Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by the supervisor. Employer is a drug-free workplace.