Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop, Nursery, And Greenhouse

O que vai fazer

Texto original em inglês, como foi registrado no Departamento do Trabalho.

Skill Level 1
Nursery: Planting: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling planters and planting wagons. Workers may be required to work on the ground planting trees that are fed through a tractor pulled planter-using shovels. Workers will be required to dig trees. Workers will also be required to plant trees by hand.
Pruning: When pruning, it is vital to prune the unwanted branch while protecting the stem or trunk wood of the tree. While pruning trees, workers will receive proper tools for the particular job, i.e., saw, prunes, and hand snips. These tools will be returned to the employer at the end of the task. The cost of tools destroyed maliciously or lost carelessly will be deducted from worker's wages. The supervisor will set a standard or pattern for each nursery field and will demonstrate and communicate this to workers. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune each tree according to the predetermined standard. Workers must remove all resulting material from the trees rendered from performing pruning tasks. When pruning is complete on each tree, each worker is required to rake and scatter the resulting brush in the center of the tractor/equipment rows.
Balled and Burlap (B&B) tree production: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with tree spade attachments or haul out tines. Workers will be required to wrap each tree to be harvested with protective felt wrap around the trunk before digging. Workers may be required to work on the ground packaging the finished root ball on a tree by sewing burlap closed around tree ball, tying basket loops with twine, crimping baskets with pig tail crimpers or tying branches with twine. The employer expects tree spade crews to dig between 25 and 75 trees an hour depending on size and variety. Plants must be handled carefully to ensure that leaves, limbs and roots are not broken during digging, handling, wrapping, and/or transplanting process. Care must be taken to prevent bruising and breaking crops, and to use equipment safely.
Bare root tree propagation: Workers will be responsible for identifying bare root trees and seedlings. Workers will unload bare root trucks into sawdust ditches, keep the same varieties together in holding ditches, water and keep bare roots covered. Workers will grade the bare root trees by size and variety before planting. Workers will be responsible for trimming roots and watering liner stock to prepare for planting.
Loading and unloading: Workers may be required to work on flat bed trailers for loading finished nursery stock. Workers may be required to work unloading bare root trees by hand from refrigerated trailers.
Cultivation: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling cultivators, mowers or hilling disks. Watering:
Workers may be required to water trees by hand using pumps and hoses and an overhead watering system.
Farm Equipment Operation: Workers will drive tractors, mowers, use machetes, backpacks, or weed eaters as needed for crop production. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor and other equipment before driving tractor or using other equipment. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operators, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. General Duties: Duties performed in the field will be sporadic all through the contract due to the various duties, i.e., preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting, trimming to shape, spacing plants, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery fields, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers will be required to perform duties to prepare crops for marketing.

Requisitos

Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.

Benefícios e condições