Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop***

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INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA CAREER CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW . 2026-0654 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

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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 Hillsborough County . Housing is located in Plant City, FL. (Hillsborough County) D.

Job Offer:

The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.

Strawberry Planting:

Workers will place the strawberry plant in a machine dug hole. Workers will fill in hole on all sides making sure the strawberry plant is securely in place.

Strawberry Harvest:

The top of each flat or clamshell will be hand-placed correctly, meaning only the red of the strawberries will be shown in the presentation. All pint cups are to be covered where they are not seen. Each worker will get rows at the beginning of the season and that will be their row all year long. It is the workers responsibility to maintain the upkeep of the rows, including cleaning the bushes each time you pick of berries not suitable for sale (too small, deformed berries, rotten, etc.)

Cutting Strawberry Runners:

Move down the rows and cut and remove all strawberry runners as instructed. Tomato Harvest•

Grape, Plum, or Cherry:

Unless otherwise instructed, only tomatoes that have broken color on the bottom (turning pink) are to be picked. All green tomatoes are

UNACCEPTABLE!

Grape tomatoes will only be picked red & high orange•no pink, no breakers and no green. All buckets will be filled to the top without being "shaken" (making it appear more tomatoes are in the bucket than there really are).

Staking:

Move down row and pound in wooden stake next to each plant as instructed.

Tying:

Move down row tying plant to stake as instructed.

Pay:

Florida Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR)•$15.00 per hour ¾ Guarantee is in effect.

Wage Offer:

$15.00 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 August 10, 2026 to June 1, 2027 .

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): The employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and free weekly transportation to the grocery store 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 full details.