Farm Labor
Employer
2333 S 300 W
WASHINGTON, IN 47501
United States
Job description
The worker will have the task of planting vegetable plants and harvesting produce, which requires workers to be bent
over for long periods of time for many hours per day. The worker, in order to perform this kind of work, must be able to
work outside for at least 5 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength
and endurance to repeat the planting and picking process rapidly, the worker will also need to walk down the field rows
where the product will be harvested. The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties
without charge to the worker. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe produce, which can vary in weight from
20lbs to 50lbs from the ground and tossing the produce to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the produce
to the next worker and so on, until the produce is then tossed the person inside the bus who will place the produce on
the bus floor, loaded buses will be transported by the field driver to the packing location on the farm. The workers will
unload the product, put it in a convener belt that will transport the product into the packing house where it will be
separated by size, labeled and packed by workers. Worker will also complete post-harvest field clean-up, this work will
include, but not be limited to removal of plastic mulch, irrigation lines and other miscellaneous trash from the field, and
other miscellaneous farm labor. Driver will move/drive in field buses only. Driver will drive harvesting (cut downs)
buses through the field roads only, drivers will not be allowed to drive on public roads. Drivers will drive the length of
the field as many time as needed to fill buses with product. Drivers will move at a slow pace a the field workers will be
hand loading the harvesting bus being driven. Drivers will then park full buses at the entrance/exit of the field and
retrieve an empty to bus to repeat the process of filling a harvesting bus.
Special Requirements
This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely
hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning. Due to
the type of work involved, if worker can not maintain the level of production set forth by the farmer, the worker will have to be
terminated for being unable to complete the work as deemed in this order.