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INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA CAREER CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW . 2026-0605 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 Palm Beach County . Housing is located in Belle Glade, FL (Palm Beach County). D.
Job Offer:
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by supervisors in the planting, cultivation, maintenance, weeding, harvesting, packing, and post-harvest handling of agricultural commodities. Duties may include field preparation, irrigation installation and maintenance, hand weeding, planting, staking, tying, harvesting, field packing, sanitation, and general farm labor activities. All work is performed outdoors in varying weather conditions including heat, humidity, cold, rain, mud, dust, and direct sunlight.
Herbs:
Lay plastic mulch and drip tape using machinery. Load plastic rolls weighing approximately 75-80 lbs. and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50 lbs. onto machinery. Ride on plastic-laying equipment to ensure proper distribution of plastic and drip tape. Use shovels to tuck plastic ends, repair plastic, and maintain irrigation flow. Perform bed pressing, fertilizer hopper cleanout, row measuring, and numbering. Create walkways and drainage spillways in seep-irrigated fields. Load and unload plant trays from delivery boxes to planting machines. Ride planting machines or walk rows placing plants into holes made by machinery. Fill soil around plants by hand. Replace missing, damaged, or dead plants by carrying trays into the field and resetting plants. Install, connect, maintain, and remove irrigation poly lines and fittings. Perform shovel work as necessary during irrigation installation and removal. Harvest herbs by clipping, cutting, or pulling plants by hand using knives or shears. Form bunches and secure with twist ties or rubber bands as required. Trim, grade, sort, and pack harvested herbs according to quality standards. Carry harvested product and packed boxes to field trucks or designated loading areas. Perform sanitation, labeling, stacking, and general field packing duties. Remove plastic mulch, drip tape, stakes, and field debris. Collect and dispose of broken materials, plastic, and trash from fields.
Specialty Peppers:
Clip, cut, or pull specialty peppers from plants by hand. Place harvested peppers into buckets or containers. Carry harvested product to field trucks, mule trains, tanks, or bins. Perform grading, trimming, packing, labeling, and sanitation tasks.
Microgreens:
Seed, water, maintain, harvest, trim, grade, pack, and label microgreens according to quality standards. Use knives or scissors to cut microgreens from trays or beds. Carry harvested product to packing and loading areas. Perform sanitation, stacking, labeling, and recordkeeping duties. Clean trays, work areas, and equipment as instructed.
Edible Flowers:
Plant, cultivate, harvest, sort, trim, grade, and pack edible flowers by hand according to quality standards. Carefully clip flowers using knives or shears and place into designated containers. Carry harvested flowers to field trucks or packing areas. Perform sanitation, labeling, stacking, and general clean-up duties.
Lettuce:
Clip, cut, or pull lettuce heads from fields. Place harvested lettuce into containers and transport to designated loading areas. Perform trimming, grading, packing, and sanitation tasks.
Leafy Greens:
Use knives to cut leaves from plants. Form bunches and secure with twist ties or rubber bands. Trim bunches and pack according to quality standards. Carry packed boxes to field trucks for palletizing. Perform grading, trimming, packing, sanitation, stacking, labeling, and recordkeeping duties in the field.
Squash:
Clip, cut, or pull squash from plants into buckets. Carry harvested product to trucks, mule trains, tanks, or bins. Perform field packing and sanitation duties.
Pay:
Florida Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) - $14.00 per hour ¾ Guarantee is in effect.
Wage Offer:
$14.00 per hour
Piece Rates:
N/A 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 1, 2026 to June 1, 2027 .
Hours:
50 hours per week
Days/Hours:
Monday thru Friday 9 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): Employers will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employers' housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employers will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. In the event kitchen facilities are not available workers staying in employer housing will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate as posted 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.
