Farmworkers & Laborers, Crop
O'Rea and Sons Harvesting and Hauling, Inc.
📍 Glennville, GA · Tattnall County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26244-207878
- 📞 Phone: +1 (912) 534-1776
- ✉️ Email: reaoswaldo@yahoo.com
Employer instructions
All interested local and intrastate candidates should contact their nearest career center for pre-employment screening before contacting the employer. Career center staff may only refer candidates who have been apprised of all the material terms and conditions of employment and have indicated, by accepting referral to the job opportunity, that he or she is qualified, able, willing, and available for employment. Career center staff should email a referral card containing the referral candidates name, address and telephone number to employer first, then instruct the candidate to call the employer directly to schedule a personal interview. Hours for referral candidate to call the employer are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, excluding all federal holidays. Referral candidates MUST call the employer and schedule an interview appointment prior to coming. No referral candidate is to go to the employers address or work site without a scheduled interview appointment. Candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance are not required to appear in person for interview. Employer may schedule telephone interview appointments to candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance.
All interstate applicants interested in this job offer should first contact the nearest career center in their state. Career center staff should contact Work Source Georgia, 1800 Century Place NE, Atlanta, GA 30345 at (770) 202-5689, foreignlabor_h2a@worksourcega.org, prior to contacting the employer.
Workers should be fully apprised by the local employment office of the terms, conditions and nature of employment prior to referral. Workers recruited against the job offer from within normal commuting distance will not be provided housing, subsistence or transportation. All workers hired under this job order will be required to provide documentation attesting to legal status to work in the United States. All applicants must be able (with or without reasonable accommodation), willing, and qualified to perform all the work described, and must be available for the entire anticipated period of employment.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Farmworkers & Laborers, Crop (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26244-207878
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Pull weeds/chop: Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Plant onions and melons. Hand-harvest onions, satsuma oranges, lemons and melons. Transplant and hand-harvest sweet potatoes. Grade, sort, package sweet potatoes grown on the farm at on-farm packing shed. Pull plastic. May prune satsuma and lemon trees and pick up trimmings. May cover trees for winter protection. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. May operate and perform minor maintenance on farm vehicles or equipment. May repair fences, greenhouses, farm buildings and other structures, or perform irrigation activities. Perform farm, field and shed sanitation duties. Mow grass and operate trimmer around farm buildings. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. All workers are required to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly important when touching crops for human consumption. Workers are required to cleanse their hands by washing thoroughly with soap and water before entering field for harvest activities and after each break. Smoking and the use of tobacco products prohibited during working time.
Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, shears and knives. Clip top stem and bottom roots off of onions with shears as instructed by supervisor and fill a five gallon bucket. Lift and dump full five gallon bucket into bin. Pick up any loose or dropped onions and place back into bucket being careful not to drop from a height greater than eight inches at any time.
Melons: Workers will walk along rows and cut melons for harvest according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity by using a knife. May carry harvested melons to field truck and load melons on truck or trailer by hand. May unload and pack harvested melons at on-farm packing shed. Workers will not haul or pack melons at a remote shed off the farm.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 75 lb Drug test |
Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping and reaching. The use or possession or being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol during working time is prohibited. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result required before starting work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Requires two months verifiable farm worker experience in the crop activities listed. Must commit to work entire contract period.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | Wage offer to H-2A workers only is at least $10.80 per hour. La oferta salarial solo para trabajadores H-2A es de al menos $10.80 por hora. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Metter, Ga) |
| Housing | Housing is group housing. If a female worker is hired, separate toilet, shower, and sleeping room will be provided. Family housing is not available and the provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. La vivienda es para grupo. Si se contrata a una trabajadora, se proporcionarn bao, ducha y habitacin separadas. Vivienda para toda la familia no es disponible y la provisin de casa para toda una familia no es imperante para el rea de traba |
| Meals | Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week, the employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. These board arrangements apply only to workers living in employer-provided housing. Empleador proporcionara instalaciones de cocina gratis y conveniente para los trabajadores viviendo en la vivienda proporcionada para que los trabajadores pueden prepararse su propia comida. Tranporte gratuito en un vehculo sera proporcionado al menos una vez cada semana por los trabajadores para comprar sus propios alimentos. Estos arreglos applicar solamente a trabajadores que viven en la vivienda provistos por el empleador. |
| Daily transportation | Employer will offer voluntary transportation at no cost to those workers living in housing provided by the employer and for commuting workers who report to a designated daily job reporting site. The mode of transportation will be by 2 authorized buses each with 52 seats which will be operated by FLCE authorized drivers employed by the H-2ALC to drive. Multiple trips can be made as needed in order to transport the number of workers requested. |
| Travel to the job | Inbound transportation and subsistence will be reimbursed at the end of the first work week. The employer will provide or pay for charter bus or van or other modes of inbound and outbound transportation to groups of workers, or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. Mode of transportation to be arranged by the employer is unknown. |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions from the worker?s wages: FICA, Medicare and income taxes as required by law (unlike U.S. workers, foreign H-2A workers are not subject to payroll tax deductions for FICA, Medicare or federal withholding.); cash advances and repayment of loans; repayment of overpayment of wages to the worker; long-distance telephone charges; recovery of any loss to the employer due to the worker?s damage, beyond normal wear and tear, or loss of equipment or housing items where it is shown that the worker is responsible. No deduction not required by law will be made that brings the worker?s hourly earnings below the higher of the federal minimum wage and State minimum wage. |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26244-207878 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Andrew Jackson Law P.C. |
| Posted | Sep 10, 2026 |