Greenhouse Worker
Bergen's Greenhouses, Inc
📍 Detroit Lakes, MN · Becker County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26263-246889
- 📞 Phone: +1 (218) 847-2138
- ✉️ Email: chelseys@bergensgreenhouses.com
Employer instructions
Referrals accepted from local Job Services office. Word-of-mouth, gate hires, etc. will also be considered.
Order holding office to refer applicants to employers' office. Office hours Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm, CT time or call 218.847.2138.
✉️ Application email template in English
Replace what is in brackets [ ] with your details. If the employer asked for another way to apply, follow their instructions.
Subject: Application for Greenhouse Worker (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26263-246889
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Work in greenhouse environment preparing spring bedding plants, mums, and poinsettias. Duties to include lifting and moving heavy potted plants, planting, cultivating, watering, plant propagation, filling containers, chemical applications, general maintenance of the greenhouse, including environmental control.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | Not required |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 60 lb |
As required for all workers in Minnesota, hours worked in excess of 48 hours in a work week will be paid at the rate of 1.5 times the regular rate of pay. Effective Jan 1, 2024, per MN State Statute, an employee will earn one hour of paid sick and safe time for every 30 hours worked, up to at least 48 hours of accrued Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) per year, provided the employee works a minimum of 80 hours in a calendar year.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Biweekly |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Detroit Lakes, Mn) |
| Meals | Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities for meal preparation. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employers will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. |
| Daily transportation | Workers living in employee housing are within walking distance to job site. If Worker requires transportation to and from work, the following employer owned vehicles are available at no cost to the worker, 2017 Dodge Ram- 5 seats, 2012 VW Jetta-5 seats, 2012 Toyota Corolla-5 seats. The transportation schedule will coincide with the work schedule or as agreed upon between employer and employee based on seasonal demands and/or workload. |
| Travel to the job | The employer will provide advance transportation for reasonable common carrier or other transportation which conforms to the ICC inbound transportation. If not the prevailing practice, the employer will reimburse the worker for transportation costs and subsistence to the employer's work site when the worker completes 50% of the work period. |
| Pay deductions | No deduction, not required by law will be made that brings the worker's hourly earnings below the statutory federal or state minimum wage. FICA, State, and Federal taxes will not be deducted from worker's wages that are working under a temporary, agricultural visa, unless the worker request withholding and the employer agrees to do so as stated by the IRS. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26263-246889 |
|---|---|
| Posted | Sep 20, 2026 |