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FOR STATEWIDE RECRUITMENT
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"Apply for This Job" -- INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA CAREER CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW . 2026-0537 A.
This is an Agricultural Labor Program clearance order for temporary or seasonal agricultural workers. ALL QUALIFIED U.S. DOMESTIC WORKERS
(CITIZENS AND NON-CITIZENS WITH VALID WORK AUTHORIZATION
) INCLUDING MSFW AND NON-MSFW WORKERS MAY BE REFERRED. B.
Interested applicants should report to any State Workforce Agency (SWA) career center for help in contacting the employer. Referral by a career center provides program guarantees and protections that may not be available to a worker not referred. Workers must have valid identification for I-9 preparation when they report to the employer location to begin work. The employer may use the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify Program to verify employment eligibility. C. Workers referred to this job by a SWA should report to a career center between 5 and 9 work days before the job start date to verify the job start date is the same. Failure to do so may disqualify the worker from the assurances of this Job Order. Worksites are located in Jackson County . Housing is located in Marianna, Florida (Jackson County). D. Job Offer:
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. General Farm LaborAll other misc farm tasks as assigned by supervisor (shoveling, weeding, picking up trash, etc.) PlantingLoading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine, placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. (Commodities:
Watermelon, Winter Hard Squash, Tomato, Sweet Corn, Okra, Potato. Loading Watermelon:
Walking through filed and loading watermelons onto the bus. Packing/Unloading Watermelons:
Unloading watermelons from bus onto the conveyor belt for packing. Packing watermelons into harvest containers. Cutting WatermelonsWorkers are to walk along watermelon vines in the harvest field and clip ripe watermelons from vine and load clipped watermelons into harvest vehicle or containers. Packing of Crop (In Field) The worker will be required to do the following tasks on Farm Sites:
Grading, packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, record keeping, hand jack and forklift operation, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors. Packing House Tasks:
The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, record keeping, hand jack and forklift operation, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors at the packing house located on farm property. Harvest Okra:
The worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull products from plants into bucket/container. Then carry bucket/container to box (20lb.) or mule train to be placed into tank or bins. Harvest Peas:
The worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull products from lplants into bucket/container. Then carry bucket container to box (20 lb) or mule train to be placed into tank or bins. Harvest Tomatoes (Round /Roma): Using a 24-quart bucket, remove mature tomatoes from the plant with both hands (also remove calyx and stem from tomato) and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the tomato bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place it on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a brisk pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands and hand it to the person next to the bin. The person next to the bin dumps the tomatoes into the bin and returns the bucket with a ticket in it. Save the ticket to keep count of how many buckets you pick. Repeat process. Paid per bucket. Harvest Sweet CornThe worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull products from plants into buckets. Then carry bucket to truck or mule train or bin on filed truck to be dumped into tank or bins. Harvest Winter Hard SquashThe worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull product from plants into bucket. Then carry bucket to truck or mule train to be dumped into tank or bins. Pay:
Florida Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) - $14.00 per hour ¾ Guarantee is in effect. Wage Offer:
$14.00 per hour Piece Rates:
Yes - See ETA 790 below. Bonus:
None Pay is: Weekly Employer provides tools/equipment. Withholding:
Federal Income Tax, Social Security and Medicare, and any deductions agreed to by the worker in writing. Work rules will be found in the Clearance Order. E. Contract period is May 15, 2026 to July 31, 2026 . Hours:
36 hours per week Days/Hours:
Monday thru Saturday 6 hours per day . Work may be offered but not required on Sundays and holidays. Extra work hours may be offered based on weather and other conditions. F. Employer will refund workers living outside commuting distance the reasonable transportation and subsistence costs to report for the first day of work on the 50% date. Will provide workers who complete the contract period the reasonable cost of transportation and subsistence to return to place of recruitment or to report to the next H-2A job. G. Housing and Board. Housing:
Will provide free housing for workers who arrive from outside daily commuting distance. Family housing is not available. Meals (Board): Eberry Harvest Company will provide three (3) catered meals per day to the workers residing in the housing units located at the employer provided housing and worksite locations. The employer will charge each worker $16.28 per day for catered meals, subject to change with the publication of new rates by the USDOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification in the Federal Register. Housing meets the requirements of Federal, State and Local regulations. Rules regarding living accommodations will be found in the Clearance Order. Transportation provided by the employer meets the requirements of Federal, State and Local regulations. H. Prohibition against preferential treatment of aliens: The employer's job offer must offer to U.S. workers no less than the same benefits, wages, and working conditions that the employer is offering, intends to offer, or will provide to H-2A workers. Job offers may not impose on U.S. workers any restrictions or obligations that will not be imposed on the employer's H-2A workers. This does not relieve the employer from providing to H-2A workers at least the same level of minimum benefits, wages, and working conditions which must be offered to U.S. workers. I. Mandatory 653.501 Statement:
In view of the statutorily established basic function of the Job Service office as a no-fee labor exchange, that is, as a forum for bringing together employers and job seekers, neither the ETA nor the SWAs are guarantors of the accuracy or truthfulness of information contained on job orders submitted by employers. Nor does any job order accepted or recruited upon by the Job Service office constitute a contractual job offer to which the ETA or a SWA is in any way a party. Please see ETA 790 for full details.
