Job Duties:Attend to cattle. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, branding, catching, and loading, hauling manure and hauling feed. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. May maintain records on cattle; examine cattle to detect diseases or injuries; assist in calving; administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. Drive farm trucks, farm tractors and snow removal equipment. Maintain/clean equipment, prepare equipment for spring field work.
30-minute lunch.
The start and end of the workday depend on crop and weather conditions, which means work may begin or end earlier or later than usual. Evening and/or night hours may be required. Workers may be requested to work additional hours, weekends, holidays, and the Sabbath depending on crop conditions and need. Workers are not allowed to begin work before the scheduled start time or continue after the scheduled stop time.
No smoking allowed in housing, shops, vehicles, or any other equipment. No use of illicit drugs or narcotics. At the sole discretion of the employer, workers may be required to submit to a post hire drug test, paid by the employer. Positive results or refusal to take the test may result in immediate termination.
Only workers may live in employer-provided housing unless other arrangements have been made with the employer. Guests are allowed after work hours but must leave by 10:00pm. No modifications are allowed to the housing, i.e. removal of screens, removal of signs/postings, dismantling beds, moving furniture, etc. Workers must vacate housing immediately at the end of the contract or if terminated.
Employees are expected to keep employer-provided vehicles clean and free of trash. Employees are expected to conduct frequent cleanings of employer-provided housing and maintain the yard.
Any worker found to have a criminal conviction, DWI, commits serious acts of misconduct, refuses to follow instructions, violates work rules, fails to perform job duties in a competent manner, or other lawful job-related reasons will be subject to termination. Any worker who physically threatens another worker, the employer, or customers will be subject to immediate termination.
Workers may not post or remove notices, signs, or other instructions from the employer’s bulletin boards or the employer’s property without specific authorization from the employer.
Workers who do not follow instructions, break rules that ensure efficiency and safety, refuse to perform the work for which they were hired (without justified cause), or lack skills and competency to perform the job satisfactorily after receiving instruction will face discipline. This can include verbal and/or written warnings, as well as corrective actions. If issues persist despite warnings and corrections, workers may be terminated.
Workers can be terminated immediately for egregious violations including, but not limited to a) theft from the employer or coworkers b) deliberate abuse or destruction of any property, i.e. machinery, vehicles, equipment, tools, or any other property owned by the employer or fellow employees, c) falsifying identification, personnel, medical, production or other work-related records, d) other serious act of misconduct.
Workers may not use or operate trucks, vehicles, machines, tools, or other equipment and property to which the worker has not been specifically assigned by his supervisor nor use or operate trucks, other vehicles, tools, or other equipment or property for their personal use unless expressly authorized by employer.
Workers may not misuse or remove from the farm premises any property such as trucks, tractors, tools, equipment, beds, refrigerator, etc. without specific authorization from the employer.Job Classification:45-2093.00 – Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
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