Employer information: Superior Forestry Service, Inc. located in Tilly, AR; phone number: (870) 496-2442; email: personnel@superiorforestry.com
165 forest and conservation workers needed for temporary, full-time employment from 12/15/2017 to 8/15/2018. The work schedule is 8 hours per day, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week. Workers may be offered additional hours in a single work day. Severe weather may affect the number of available hours during a work week. Weekend work may be offered. overtime may be offered and, if worked, will be paid at time and one half the regular hourly rate.
Job duties: Under supervision, perform manual labor necessary to develop, maintain, or protect forests, forested areas, woodlands, and remote utility rights of ways through such activities as planting, transporting tree seedlings, and applying herbicides. Spray or inject vegetation with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation to maintain forest tracts and to remove and to inhibit excess vegetation along power lines using backpack sprayer or other hand-held equipment. Confer with other workers to discuss issues such as safety. Plant bare-root or containerized trees using a shove, , or dibble bar. Transport trees in a tree bag. Dig holes at pre-determined intervals and insert seedling. Tamp soil around plant with foot and planting tool. Select optimum planting location to meet spacing, soil, and shade requirements. Bare soil. Apply unrestricted repellent to seedlings under supervision of a licensed applicator.
Workers who apply for and obtain an FLC or FLC employee certificate of registration with deriving authorized by the USDOL Wage and Hour Division during the employment period may transport workers, count and check, and may be offered additional hours. Job qualifications and requirements in this temporary job offer are consistent with other employers in the reforestation industry in the area of intended employment. These jobs involve propagating, protecting, and managing forest tracts. Drug-free workplace. Drug testing may be conducted throughout the employment period at no cost to the worker.
The employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the job.
Worksite locations: this is itinerant work meaning that applicants must be willing to travel. Workers will initially report to South Boston, Virginia and will also work in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Wage Information: Hourly wage range of $11.27 to $33.82, depending on the location. Overtime rate of pay will be $16.91 to $50.73 per hour depending on the location. Workers will be paid weekly.
Employer may pay a piece rate of $15.00 - $100.00 per 1,000 tree seedlings planted correctly, or the prevailing wage in the area of intended employment, whichever is higher. If a piece rate does not result in average hourly piece rate earnings during the pay period at least equal to the amount the worker would have earned had the worker been paid at the hourly rate, the worker's pay will be supplemented to increase the earnings to the equivalent hourly level.
The employer will use a single workweek as its standard for computing wages due.
The employer will make all deductions from the worker's paycheck as required by law.
Board/Lodging: Overnight travel is required. The employer will assist non-local workers in locating reasonably priced shared housing near the areas of employment, and the employer will pay for the cost of that lodging to the extent that such costs would reduce pay below the offered wage rate for the area of intended employment. The employer will not reimburse the cost of alternate lodging for workers that do not stay in offered shared public accommodations with the rest of the crew. Non-mobile workers residing within the commuting area are not eligible for housing benefits.
Transportation: Employer provides transportation between worksites. Optional transportation is provided to daily worksites form a central location at a cost of $35 per week per worker. Elected daily transportation will be payroll deducted.
The employer will provide or reimburse the reasonable one time inbound transportation expenses for all non-local workers to arrive at work on the first day from the point of recruitment plus a daily travel subsistence allowance for meals of a minimum of $12.07 per 24-hour travel period or up to the CONUS meal reimbursement rate of $51.00 when receipts are provided, and when necessary lodging, no later than in the first workweek. Return transportation will be provided or paid for by the employer if the non-local worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer.
H-2B workers will be reimbursed in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees).
Three-Fourths Guarantee: The employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays of each 12-week period of the total employment period; and, if the guarantee is not met, the employer will pay the worker what the worker would have earned if the employer had offered the guaranteed number of days.
U.S. Workers hired in connection with this recruitment will be offered at least the same benefits, wages, and working conditions that are offered to visa holding workers. This job offer, including its wage, working terms & conditions is contingent upon prevailing U.S. Immigration law, including Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security regulations. If any such prevailing law or portion thereof is rescinded, superseded, vacated, or substantially modified, then the parties will re-negotiate in good faith any affected term.
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