Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

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INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA CAREER CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW . 2026-0143 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 Lee County . Housing is located in Saint James City, Florida ( Lee County) . D.

Job Offer:

2 Total Workers. 1 H-2A Worker. Prior experience is not required, but basic knowledge of fertilizer and pesticide application is required. Basic course work and knowledge of cultivation and propagation techniques is required. Ability to use power tools, shovels, outside in hot temperatures. Applicants must pass a background check and pass a drug test and a physical examination. A work history showing reliability and ability to learn is required as this position frequently works with others and being reliable and punctual is essential. This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning. Safety is of primary importance and no drug or alcohol use while working will be tolerated. Workers will take cuttings from existing plants and bundle with like cuttings until targeted quantities are achieved. Workers will then stick cuttings into trays of soil or sand beds by hand. Workers will plant seeds and seedlings into containers and fill with potting soil and maintain those plants.

PLANTING

Workers will fill empty growing containers with soil mix. Workers will then set these containers down by hand on growing block (depending on container size workers may carry as many as four containers in each hand).

SPACING:

Using a spacing rack, workers will position container plants in a grid pattern, carrying container plants from an adjacent location on the block or using a cart or trailer to transport.

SHEARING

Workers will use either hand shears or machine shears to shear the top and/or sides of the plants. Shearing specifications will vary by plant variety and supervisor/foreman will instruct worker of each variety needs.

PULLING/LOADING

Workers will harvest container plants by loading noted varieties on trailers. Workers are responsible for ensuring correct variety and size according to pull tags and also that plants pulled are uniform in regard to height, width, etc. Workers will load harvested plants onto racks for the purpose of distribution. Working in teams of 2 workers will care, water, load, and unload employer's nursery stock. Duties will be sporadic all through the contract due to various crops and crop conditions. Duties will/could include pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, spacing plants, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials loading and unloading plants by hand, watering by hand with pumps or hoses. Plants maybe (75 to 100Lbs).

General Field Maintenance:

Digging trenches, installing, repairing, and replacing ground cloth, staking, installing and repairing irrigation, weeding and other miscellaneous work. The fields will be cleaned up after the harvesting in order to prepare for the next harvesting season. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the work process rapidly, 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. Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available, there is a possibility that available work hours will be in excess of 20% of the hours offered but they are not guaranteed, the worker is not required to work more than the stated daily hours in the contract and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season.

Pay:

Florida Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) - $16.50 per hour ¾ Guarantee is in effect.

Wage Offer:

$16.50 per hour

Piece Rates:

N/A Bonus:

None Pay is: Biweekly 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 February 15, 2026 to December 15, 2026.

Hours:

35 hours per week

Days/Hours:

Monday thru Thursday 8 hours; and Friday 3 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 housing includes a full kitchen available to the worker. The kitchen has refrigerator, oven, stove, microwave, sink, and dishwasher. There are pots, pans, utensils. The grocery store is 1 mile from the living location and the employer will provide transportation after work or on Saturdays as necessary. 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 H-2A workers: 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

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