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Workers will be required to seine fish ponds as needed, load and unload fish from pond bank into\ specialized fish hauling trucks; unload trucks into fish shed, grade fish into sizes, maintain fish shed by checking health of fish as needed especially while loading customers trucks. Workers will need to\ ensure tractors and other equipment are fueled and greased properly. Worker should be able to start\ and drive tractor for use in aeration as well as seining ponds. During spawning season, primarily April, May and June, workers will assist in preparing ponds for spawning, moving and washing hatchery mats and helping in the fish hatchery. General property maintenance will be expected such as bush hogging around levees and open fields, trimming trees with a chain saw, weed-eating, and some building maintenance such as painting and general repairs. Repairing seines and dipnets will be done as needed. Mechanical assistance to maintain tractors and farm vehicles as needed. Workers will be expected to keep equipment clean. Workers should be able to work independently after the job has been mastered. Tractor experience of 3 months is essential. A drivers license is highly desirable. This is a physically demanding job and workers must be able to lift 55 lb buckets of fish, pull seines thru mud and climb up and down pond banks under various temperatures and\ weather conditions. Worker should be comfortable working in and around water.\ Qualifications/Requirements: Lifting 55 lbs. Exposure to extreme temperatures, Extensive pushing or pulling, Extensive sitting or walking, Frequent stooping or bending over, Repetitive movements, 3 months tractor driving experience required

Housing: 1 Unit, Total Occupancy: 4,

Meals: Free and convenient kitchen facilities are provided. Workers will be transported to a local\ grocery store at least weekly to purchase groceries in a 2017 GMC Terraine that seats 5. Anyone driving the work vehicle will have a physical on file and hold a current valid drivers\ license.

Transportation: Transportation to the worksite will be conducted in a 2017 GMC Terrain that seats 5 people.\ The vehicle used would be the same vehicle used to provide transportation to the closest local grocery store. Daily transportation schedules to be determined by crop conditions, and weather and are discussed verbally with the workers at end of day the day before the workday begins.\ Daily transportation at no cost to workers is not available to workers who do not reside in employer-provided housing. The employer does not provide any transportation to workers for personal errands. Transportation to and from work is covered by workers compensation. The vehicle utilized for transporting workers to the grocery store will be covered by insurance as required by property damage insurance and over the 100,000 per seat of liability. Any person driving the vehicle is required to have a current physical on file and documentation of a current drivers license.\ Transportation and border crossing expenses will be reimbursed on or before the first payday to the extent necessary to insure employees are compensated at least at the minimum wage level set by FLSA at 20 CFR 655. 123(h). The amount of transportation\ reimbursement will be calculated based on the worker\'s actual cost but no more than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distance involved. Employees are given the opportunity to choose their means of transportation and in some instances the employer may pay the transportation directly. Upon competition of the work contract or if the employee is terminated without cause, and the worker has no immediate subsequent H2A employment, the employer will provide of pay for the worker\'s transportation and daily subsistence from the place of employment to the place from which the worker, disregarding intervening employment departed to work for the employer. If the worker has contracted with a subsequent employer who has agreed in such work contract to provide or pay for the worker\'s transportation and daily subsistence expenses from the employer\'s worksite to such subsequent employer\'s worksite, the subsequent employer must provide or pay for such expenses. The employer agrees that it is not relieved of its obligation to provide or pay for return transportation and subsistence if an H2A worker is displaced as a result of the employer\'s compliance with the 50 percent rule as described in 655.135(d) of this sub-part with respect to the referrals made after the employer\'s date of need.