Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop

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INTERESTED IN THIS JOB OPPORTUNITY MUST BE INTERVIEWED AND REFERRED BY A FLORIDA ONE-STOP CENTER. SEE ITEM B, BELOW . I-2026-0281 A.

This is an Agricultural Labor Program Clearance for temporary or seasonal agricultural workers.

ALL QUALIFIED UNITED STATES DOMESTIC WORKERS

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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 State Workforce Agency should report to a One-Stop 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 Bruce, Coffeeville, Houston, Oakland, Water Valley, Banner and Randolph Mississippi. Housing is located in Water Valley, Mississippi (Job Order Number

MS635298

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Job Offer:

8 general farmworkers for sweet potato, purple hull peas, beans, squash, watermelon, corn, okra and cotton harvesting. Must be 18 years or older. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Clearing ground of rocks, sticks & roots by hand, clear brush and trees with chain saw. General field & fence maintenance. Use wood to build and repair boxes for digger. Preparing the ground for planting. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools. Participate in irrigation activities. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. Load & unload boxes on trucks trailers or sweet potato harvesters. Repair, maintain and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. (All tools and supplies will be provided at no cost to workers). Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. Workers may be asked to operate farm equipment, combine, drive all tractors (in the field), and implements on farm including: hipper, disk, dual, chisel plow, potato transplanter, bushhawg, grain buggy, skid steer, forklift, potato digger, water trailer to water plants, and any other equipment related to the planting, cultivation and harvesting of crops. Worker may be asked to do welding and torch work when needed. Safety training for use of farm equipment and tractors will be provided. Sweet Potatoes - Covering potatoes with use of bedding machine & covering with plastic. Cut slips by hand with knife, place in boxes to load & unload onto trucks. Walk behind potato transplanter and fill in slips by hand. Riding mechanical transplanter and loading slips in planting cups. Divining plants by hand. Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. May also harvest potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade & pack potatoes by size quality or type. Three months experience needed for hand cutting slips and use or mechanical transplanter & mechanical diggers. May also plant, cultivate & harvest the following: Cotton - Wrap ties around cotton bales, banding/unbanding, moving bales with dolly, loosening bales and loading bales on tractor . Thin out young cotton, keep wet cotton separate from dry cotton. Purple Hull Peas, Watermelons, Beans, Corn, Squash and Okra. General Specifications and Physical Requirement of the

Job:

The majority of the workday is spent on one's feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach and lift. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should expect periods of little/no work during growing time. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. Proper work attire is required. Workers must wear long sleeve shirts, long pants, no shorts, hard sole shoes, preferably boots, no tennis shoes. ¾ Guarantee is in effect.

Piece Rates:

N/A.

Wages:

$9.74 per hour

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 February 26, 2026 through November 13, 2026.

Hours:

45 hours per week

Days/Hours:

Monday thru Friday 8 hours per day. Saturday 5 hours. 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): Employer will provide a free and convenient kitchen and transport workers to a grocery store at least once per week. Workers will purchase and 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(A)

Statement:

In view of the statutorily established basic function of the Job Service as a no-fee labor exchange, that is as a forum for bringing together employers and job seekers, neither the ETA nor the state agencies 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 constitute a contractual job offer to which the ETA or a state age is in any way a party.