Farm Labor
Paloma Harvesting
📍 Niles, MI · Berrien County
- ✔ Moradia oferecida
- ✔ Transporte diário
Como se candidatar
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- 📞 Telefone: +1 (586) 855-0061
- ✉️ E-mail: paloma092766@gmail.com
Instruções do empregador
Interested candidates are to contact their local State Workforce Agency (SWA). Candidates should be fully apprised by the local SWA office of the terms, conditions and nature of employment prior to referral and may be given a copy of the ETA Form 790 and its corresponding attachments. How to Apply: Apply in Person at your Michigan Workers! Office/ Solicita en persona en su oficina local de Michigan by calling 800-285-WORKS (9675) | TTY: 711 Works! Or logging on to https://www.michiganworks.org/michigan-works-network. SWA agents who have screened candidates for all season availability, and who are willing, able and qualified to perform the job duties may fax referrals to 386-200-4193; or mail them to 171 East Cracker Swamp Road, East Palatka, FL 32131.
Person seeking employment as a farm laborer must be available for the entire period requested by the employer, possess 2 months experience hand harvesting fruits and vegetables with verifiable sources, may be subject to a post hire background check at no expense of their own and pass a post-hire free of charge drug test. These steps are intended to ensure that the safety of the work environment and end consumer is not compromised as mandated by the Global G.A.P Audit, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the USDA Good Agricultural Practices & Good Handling Practices Audit. Convictions of criminal conduct that present a potential compromise of food security in accordance with the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 will be cause for discharge. The employer may terminate the worker (foreign and/or domestic) with notification to the employment service if employer discovers a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers. Although an international or US drivers license is not required, all applicants must be in compliance with Federal, State and local licensing requirements for safe employer vehicle operation. Applicants who have been disbarred from licensing for multiple DUIs will not be eligible.
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Subject: Application for Farm Labor (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26175-046572
O que vai fazer
Texto original em inglês, como foi registrado no Departamento do Trabalho.
The farm worker position includes duties associated with the harvesting and packing of watermelons. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.
Watermelons: Workers will be required to turn watermelon vines from drive rows,cut ripe melons, and harvest the cut melons. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to worker. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Workers will unload containers at the packing shed and place fruit onto a conveyer belt to grade and then pack the fruit into boxes. Workers visually grade harvested produce and remove culls. Workers need to use both hands while grading at all times. Workers pack the graded produce in appropriate containers by hand.Workers will unload containers at the packing shed and place fruit onto a conveyer belt to grade and then pack the fruit into boxes. Filled boxes and cartons are stacked carefully by prescribed pattern and height onto pallets and secured by netting or tape. Workers may be required to operate forklifts and tractors after having been instructed on how to safely operate said machinery.
Workers may also be required to remove old or damaged plastic and irrigation drip tape along with any other trash, rocks or debris from the planting areas. Workers will assist in preparation of field areas prior to installation of new plastic and drip tape. Workers will also be responsible for irrigation installation, shovel work, weed pulling and plastic installation to ensure the health of the crops.
Farm, Field Sanitation and Packing Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, and other similar farm sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personalhygiene and handling the fruit in the field with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting tools and keeping the fields as clean as possible. Workers may be responsible for pulling plastic, picking up trash, cleaning bins and other similar farm sanitation.
Requisitos
| Escolaridade | Nenhuma exigida |
|---|---|
| Experiência | 2 meses |
| Outros requisitos | Carregar até 75 lb (34 kg) Exame toxicológico Checagem de antecedentes |
Benefícios e condições
| Horário | 7:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Pagamento | Weekly |
| Informações do salário | The pay rate for H2A workers will be at least $13.73. Under Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act 338, employers must provide earned sick time, with the amount of paid leave varying by employer size. |
| Tipo de moradia | Rental or public accommodations (South Bend, In) |
| Moradia | Each worker will have their own bed. 4 workers per room.All structures are built specifically for compliance with the DOL OSHA standards set forth in 29 CFR 1910.142. The units possess beds, showers, lavatories, and space for storing personal items. All utilities are provided free of charge. Employees residing in the housing may have mail directed to their respective addresses. |
| Refeições | Housing is provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their respective residences. Housing is not provided to non-workers. The employer has contracted with a local restaurant to provide three meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) to each worker. The employer will charge the workers up to $ 16.78 per day, subject to change with the publication of new rates by the USDOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification in the Federal Register. |
| Transporte diário | The employer will provide daily transportation from the housing unit to the worksite each day at no cost to each worker. Additionally, at the conclusion of the workday, each worker will be transported back to the housing unit. The use of transportation by the worker is voluntary, and no worker will be required as a condition of employment to utilize the transportation offered by the employer. |
| Viagem até o trabalho | After a worker has completed fifty percent of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place the worker came from to the place of work, if such costs are borne by the worker. |
| Descontos no salário | The Adverse Effect Wage Rate, the prevailing hourly wage rate, the piece rate, the agreed upon collective bargaining rate, or the federal or state minimum wage rate, whichever is greatest, will be the minimum rate of pay. At the time of submission of this order, the applicable wage is $13.78 The Employer assures that if a change in the AEWR, prevailing hourly wage rate, or federal minimum wage rate requires an increase in the guaranteed minimum, such increase will be paid as of the effective date of the increase. |
| Número do caso | JO-A-300-26175-046572 |
|---|---|
| Ocupação oficial | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Agente ou advogado do empregador | Low Country Labor Company |
| Publicada em | 7 de jul. de 2026 |