Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop

Work description

Workers will perform assigned duties as described in this clearance order and as instructed by their supervisors. Planting of Vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants. Workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walk down the rows, and place one plant per hole. When finished with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process throughout the workday. Harvesting of Vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a bucket/bushel. Once the bucket/bushel is full, the worker will take the bucket/bushel to the truck and dump it. The worker will go back to their picking area and fill their bucket/bushel up again, repeating the process throughout the workday. Note: Harvesting compensation includes taking boxes to the field, making boxes, adding paper, and lining up boxes on the rows so they can be stacked onto the pallets. Field Maintenance: Workers will tie, stake, and prune plants; clean micro-jets; and remove plastic drip lines. Using hands or a hoe, workers will remove dead plants and weeds. Incidental Equipment Assistance: Workers may occasionally assist with the positioning of equipment or movement of harvested vegetables and/or bins within the farm premises. If workers are assigned to operate farm tractors or forklifts, such operation will be limited to routine on-farm activities, performed only after employer-provided training, under employer supervision, and only if permitted by applicable safety requirements. Such operation is incidental to the primary agricultural duties and does not constitute a primary job duty. No prior experience operating tractors or forklifts is required. General Farm Maintenance and Other Activities: When primary planting or harvesting work is temporarily unavailable due to weather conditions, crop conditions, operational needs, or other lawful business reasons, workers may perform agricultural work that is incidental to and in conjunction with the primary duties listed in this job order. These duties will not replace or substantially reduce the availability of primary agricultural work. Incidental duties may include general manual cleanup of the worksite and agricultural structures; weeding, trimming, digging, cutting, topping, and removing weeds, vines, debris, and trash from fields and fence lines by hand or using basic hand tools; and the routine manual installation, repositioning, flushing, connecting, disconnecting, and removal of plastic mulch, irrigation drip tape, and micro-jets under direct supervisor direction. Field sanitation activities may include cleaning, disinfecting, and performing routine upkeep of harvest buckets, bins, trailers, hand tools, and similar agricultural equipment. Workers may also assist with washing and removing dirt and plant residue from farm vehicles, harvest trailers, bins, and equipment.