Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

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DESCARGO DE RESPONSABILIDAD

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PUBLICACIN DE TRABAJO EST DESTINADA SOLO PARA TRABAJADORES ESTADOUNIDENSES LEGALMENTE AUTORIZADOS PARA TRABAJAR EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. NO PATROCINAMOS VISAS NI CONSIDERAMOS SOLICITUDES DE CANDIDATOS FUERA DE LOS EE. UU.

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Sanitation Requirements:

For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations. Workers will perform various duties associated with growing the crops listed below to include transplanting crops, weeding by hand or with hoe, laying and moving irrigation pipe, harvesting crops manually, sorting crops, washing, and packing crops.

Crops:

Asparagus, Green Beans, Beets, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Sweet Corn, Popcorn, Ornamental Corn, Cucumbers, Egg Plant, Gourds, Herbs, Kale, Leek, Lettuce, Kohlrabi, Melons, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Watermelon, Onions, Parsnips, Sugar Peas, Peppers (bell and specialty), Pumpkins, Radishes, Squash (Summer and winter), tomatoes, apples, berries, strawberries, raspberries, apples, potatoes and flowers. Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables. Workers will be required to remove weeds by hand or with a hoe. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Pickers will take care not to bruise or scar produce Duties may also include but is not limited to staking, trellising, tying, transplanting, pruning, cleaning and filling flats with soil, watering plants in green house, setup irrigation lines, lay plastic mulch for vegetables, harvesting and bagging sweet corn, binding Indian corn, washing vegetable crops and sanitizing vegetable wash area. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from forty (40) to over one hundred (100) degrees.]{ccp-props="{" 201341983\":0,\"335559739\":0,\"335559740\":240,\"469777462\":[3765],\"469777927\":[0],\"469777928\":[1]}\"=""}