Farmworkers And Laborers, Crops
Employer
Nininger Township, Dakota Co., 44.7403, -92.9542
Hastings, MN 55033
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Rogueing: the worker will walk down the aisles between the plants in the corn fields, removing the corn plants that are from a different species leaving the field ready for detasseling. Corn detasseling: the worker will walk down the aisles between the plants in the corn fields, removing the spikes that are left after the detasseling machine passes through. Workers will remove the spikes and drop them on the ground. Workers may operate detasseling machine. Seed Corn Sorting: After the machine harvests the seed corn from the fields, the corn cobs will be put on a conveyor belt so the workers can sort the corn cubs by size and class. Flowers: workers will perform agricultural work including planting, weeding and harvesting flowers along with miscellaneous agriculture tasks pertaining to the operations of business. Hand weeding: Workers will walk through the corn fields pulling the weeds around the corn plants. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, a one month experience in this type of work is required The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to drive company vehicles. Eligible workers may be asked to drive other workers to and from the job site, and move trucks, trailers, and tractors within the harvest site. All time spent driving will be compensated at $17.34. No workers will be terminated for failure to obtain a drivers license. The employer will charge the worker 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. Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. If workers request a leave of absence during the contract period, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A for the purposes of the three-quarter guarantee.
Special Requirements
See Addendum C.