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Landscape Laborer Start Date: 02/25/2025 End Date: 12/15/2025 Basic Hourly Wage (from - to): \$23.57 Overtime Hourly Wage (from - to): \$35.36 Pay Frequency: Weekly Work days: Monday - Friday 40 hours per week Job Duties: May include, but not limited to: -Gather and remove litter. -Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes. -Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws. -Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. -Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. -Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders. -Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls. -Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage. -Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds. -Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes.Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. -Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs, and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools. -Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers. -Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. -Decorate gardens with stones or plants. Special Skills Requirements Description: - Must be willing and able to tolerate very hot or very cold temperatures. - Must be willing and able to tolerate loud noises. - Must be available entire contract period. - Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds and be able to perform physical labor. - May conduct post-hire, employer-paid drug testing. Education Required: None Training Required (months): 0 Work Experience Required (months, occupation): No -Employer offers a ride to the primary worksite location to workers living area within a reasonable commute. -Daily Transportation is provided to all worksites from primary worksite. -Employer provides assistance to help workers secure their own housing who do not reside within a reasonable commute to primary worksite location. Assurances: Employer will make all deductions from workers? paycheck required by law. Employer will provide all tools, supplies and equipment to perform job at no charge to worker. Employer guarantees to offer work for the hours equal to at least ? of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period. A single workweek will be used as a standard for computing wages. H-2B workers will be reimbursed in the first workweek all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees). Transportation (including meals and lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost reimbursed, if the worker completes half of the employment period or if, after deducting the total cost owed to the worker in the first workweek, the worker does not earn enough to make the federal minimum hourly wage. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distance involved. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of \$15.88 per day during travel to a maximum of \$59.00 per day with receipts.