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INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA CAREER CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW. 2026-0701 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 Collier, Hardee, Hendry, St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River, Polk, Highlands, Lee, Desoto, and Osceola Counties. Housing is located in Labelle, Florida (Hendry County). D.
Job Offer:
Workers will perform described job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include one or more of the following job specifications:
Shuttle Bus Driver:
Inspect vehicle and safety equipment on bus before driving. Pick up workers at hotel/living quarters and transport workers to work site. Report any accidents/injuries. Keep vehicle clean, transfer workers from one worksite to another when necessary. Provide documents/licenses to federal agencies when requested. Transport workers back to hotel at the end of the workday. Assist in timekeeping. Operating a company vehicle during the period of employment the driver must possess a valid driver's license issued by the United States or foreign equivalent license to operate the company vehicle in accordance with license restrictions and vehicle classification applicable to that license.
General Farm Work:
Tasks the worker must be able to perform include: apply mulch by row mulcher or by hand; apply ground cover to beds using machine or by hand; remove debris from bed preparation process to clean growing area; finish row ends with shovels provided by employer; unload plants by hand from trucks and move plants to planting location by hand; assist in pest controls; install culverts for field drainage; remove and reinstall sprinklers during bed preparation, re-plant missing or unhealthy plants as directed; remove or pull up strawberry plants in preparation for next crop; remove blossoms (de-blossom) to improve fruit quality; remove debris, boxes, and discarded fruit from fields to keep clean growing areas; general ranch maintenance; basic irrigation maintenance; make sandbags, clean and maintenance equipment and tools, assist in applications by hand or tractor of fertilizers and or/pesticides; frost control of sprinklers, frost blanket coverings, or hoop coverings. May be necessary to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvest machinery, etc.
Grove Clean-up/General Farm Work:
Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean- up work. These activities include pruning, painting trees, repair and or replace irrigation equipment, removal of debris, and other general grove clean-up work as required. Workers performing grove clean- up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate or the minimum wage rate whichever is higher. Workers may need to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvesting machinery, etc. Workers may also help with applying the new citrus greening treatment via trunk injections. The worker will place an arbor plug into each hole for proper seal with an arbor plug seter, and a rubber hammer. Workers will also do irrigation maintenance which includes changing out microjets and fixing breaks in the line.
Agricultural Equipment Operator:
essential work activity involves loading and transport of the highly perishable sugarcane crop. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart and transport by the equipment operator to a designated location on the farm. Equipment operators will operate from field to field and farm to farm as sugarcane is progressively harvested on the property. There are multiple loading stations on the property that serve as concentration points.
Pay:
Florida Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) - $17.37 per hour ¾ Guarantee is in effect.
Wage Offer:
$17.37 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 August 10, 2026 to May 30, 2027 .
Hours:
40 hours per week
Days/Hours:
Monday thru Friday 7 hours per day; Saturday 5 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): The employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities to workers living in employer provided housing which will enable workers to prepare their own meals. 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 details.
