Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop
JJ Soto and Company, LLC
📍 Grand Rapids, MI · Kent County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26187-080605
- 📞 Phone: +1 (616) 706-2528
- ✉️ Email: soto0927@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Applicants should contact the nearest Career Center (i.e. Michigan Works!) for preemployment screening before contacting the employer, workers that meet the criteria will be interviews via telephone. To locate the nearest Michigan Works! Office, search https://www.michiganworks.org or call 1-800-285-9675. All referrals are to be made to Jose M Blanco Soto (616) 706-2528 Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Prior to referral, each worker should either read or have read to them a copy of the Job Offer and they understand all the terms and conditions of employment as noted in the order. All workers should also be advised that they will be expected to work for the total period of employment as noted in the Job Offer and should be available to work the offered hours in any one of the listed activities at the discretion of the employer.
The employer may offer the worker more than the specified hours of work on a single workday but the worker will not be required to work for more than the number of hours specified in the job order for a workday, or on the worker's Sabbath or Federal holidays.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26187-080605
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Workers will perform assigned duties as described in this clearance order and as instructed by their supervisors.
Apple Harvesting: Harvesting apples by hand under the direction of the supervisor. The worker will place a canvas and metal picking sack equipped with a shoulder strap over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the designated area of the orchard. A fully loaded sack weighs approximately 35 to 40 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of the fruit. The worker positions the ladder in a secure, leaning position against the tree within reach of the fruit, taking care to prevent slipping, falling, or causing injury to themselves or others, and ensuring they do not break limbs, damage the tree, or knock off fruit. Workers will carefully remove fruit from the tree by hand and place it into the picking sack, leaving the stems attached to the apples. When the sack is full, the worker will take it to the fruit bin and carefully dump the contents. All harvested fruit is destined for the fresh market and must be handled with extreme care to remain completely bruise-free.
Orchard Maintenance: Under supervisor instruction, workers will perform various crop care activities. These duties include applying pheromone cages to trees, planting, tying, training, sprouting, root inspection, irrigation assistance, young tree care, box repair, mowing, weed removal, debris removal, fertilizer application, and general orchard maintenance. General field tasks include stacking tree limbs in designated areas, shoveling soil, picking up rocks, and performing basic irrigation maintenance or minor repairs.
Workers will climb agricultural ladders and prune trees using hand pruners, loppers, or an 8-foot pole pruner. Following supervisor direction and employer-provided training, workers will prune trees by removing designated dead or broken branches, suckers, water sprouts, and downward-growing spurs using hand or employer-provided pruning equipment. Workers must be able to repeatedly climb and descend ladders while carrying a picking sack weighing up to approximately 40 pounds and safely handle and position ladders up to 20 feet in length (weighing up to 40 pounds). Workers must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds. The work requires prolonged standing, extensive walking, repetitive hand and arm movements, and frequent bending, stooping, kneeling, and reaching. Workers are responsible for maintaining employer-provided housing and work areas in a clean and orderly condition in accordance with employer housing rules.
Incidental Equipment Assistance: Workers may occasionally assist with the positioning of equipment or movement of harvested apples within the farm premises. If workers are assigned to operate farm tractors or forklifts, such operation will be limited to routine on-farm activities, performed only after employer-provided training, under employer supervision, and only if permitted by applicable safety requirements. Such operation is incidental to the primary agricultural duties and does not constitute a primary job duty. No prior experience operating tractors or forklifts is required.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 1 month |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb |
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.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | In accordance with applicable Michigan state law, Earned Sick Time Act 338. Employers are required to provide earned sick time to their employees. The amount of paid sick leave provided may vary depending on the size of the business. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Sparta, Mi) |
| Housing | The employer will provide housing, without charge to the worker. Employer may deduct the reasonable cost of negligent damage to lodging facilities after damage has occurred and after gaining the employee's written authorization to make the deduction. Workers should maintain housing in a clean manner. Family Housing is not available and is not a prevailing practice in the area. In the event a female worker is hired, separate toilet, shower, and sleeping rooms will be provided. |
| Meals | Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Also will provide transportation once per week to go to the stores and do laundry. |
| Daily transportation | For workers residing in the employer’s housing, employer will provide transportation between housing and worksite locations and for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services) in the form of buses and vans between employees housing location to the actual work site and return at the end of the workday without cost to the worker. |
| Travel to the job | For workers hired from beyond normal commuting distance, after completion of 50 percent of the work contract period, the employer shall reimburse the worker for cost incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence, as required by DOL regulations, from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer to the place of employment. |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions: Social Security tax and federal income tax withholding as required by Federal, State and local law, cash advances, over-payment of wages, and any other deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing. |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26187-080605 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | CCH Bookkeeping, Inc. |
| Posted | Jul 13, 2026 |