Farmworkers Laborers & Crops
Employer
237 Pulaski Highway
Pine Island, NY 10969
United States
Job description
Manually plant, transplant, and cultivate vegetables such as but not limited to: bok choy, chives, napa cabbage, kabocha, and other Asian vegetables. Duties include field preparation by tilling soil, applying fertilizers, mulching, applying and removing plastic, stripping and drying, transplanting, weeding, thinning, and pruning in the fields and greenhouses. May drive farm trucks and tractors. Sort, dump, grade, clean and pack produce in farm building. Lift, move and place pallets. Load trucks for market, unload returning trucks, and dispose of spoiled produce. Inform farm manager of crop progress. Work requires standing, sitting, kneeling, and lifting up to 75lbs. on a consistent basis throughout the day. Workers may not use cell phones for personal calls, emails or texts during working times. Phones use must be limited to break times and lunch break. Due to health and safety concerns on our farm, workers must understand basic instruction in English. Workers referred as a result of this order must have a minimum of three months of verifiable experience in performing the tasks described in this order.
Special Requirements
3. Housing for Workers: Article 6 of the NYS Labor Law, sections 193.1 and 193.2, prohibit an employer from deducting monies, either through payroll deduction or by separate transaction, any amount or charge which is not authorized by NYS labor law.
Therefore, the employer may NOT require workers to reimburse them for damage caused to housing by the individual worker(s) found to have been responsible for the damage.
12. Frequency of Pay: Article 6 of the NYS Labor Law, section 191.1a, requires that employer pay wages weekly to manual workers (farmworkers are manual workers) no later than 7 calendar days after the end of the week in which wages are earned. Therefore, manual workers can be paid weekly or biweekly (up to date; where all days, including payday hours are paid).
15. Deductions from Workers Pay: Article 6 of the NYS Labor Law, sections 193.1 and 193.2, prohibit an employer from deducting monies, either through payroll deduction or by separate transacti