H-2B Job Order
Employer’s name, Geographic location, and Need:
HOPE HARDSCAPING is looking to fill 8 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Worker positions in Cheboygan County, MI. This is a temporary, full-time seasonal position and we are looking to fill 8 job openings for employment from 10/1/2024 to 12/07/2024.
Additional Worksites: Worksites are in Cheboygan, Otsego, & Presque Isle in Michigan.
Job Description:
Duties: Duties include dormant season installation of trees, shrubs, or flowers in the appropriate design pattern. Unloading materials, digging holes for root systems, properly covering the holes and sometimes sod laying, planting grass seed or connecting irrigation. Leaf removal, lawn seed and straw, lawn aeration, planting shrubbery, digging, raking, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. Workers may gather and remove litter, water seeded lawns, trees, plants, and prune hedges. Workers may operate powered equipment, and drive vehicles to customer locations. Duties may include sod laying, mowing, watering plants & lawns, plant transplanting, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation
Requirements:
MUST BE ABLE TO LIFT 50LBS
Terms & Conditions of Employment: $16.04/hr., at 40 hours a week, Mon-Fri, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM (schedule varies). Overtime rate of pay is at least $24.06 per hour. Overtime will be available as needed. Higher pay and/or other incentives available based on performance.
Inbound Transportation:
Transportation: From the place from which the worker has come to work, whether in the U.S or abroad, to the place of employment, if the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, the employer will provide advance payment of transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of employment.
Outbound Transportation:
Upon completion of the work contract or where the worker is dismissed earlier, employer will provide or pay for worker’s reasonable cost of return transportation and subsistence back home or to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved.
Daily Transportation:
Employer will provide daily transportation to and from worksites.
Disclosure of daily subsistence amount
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.
3/4ths guarantee not required due to 2016 Omnibus:
Three- fourths guarantee: The employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period.
Provision of tools, equipment, and supplies:
Tools, equipment, and supplies: The employer will provide workers at no charge; all tools, supplies, & equipment required to perform the job.
Single Work Week guarantee and frequency of pay:
Miscellaneous: The employer will use a single workweek as its standard for computing wages due; The pay period is biweekly.
Statement of deductions from worker’s pay:
The employer will make all payroll deductions required by law and will not make any deductions which are not required by law.
Reimbursement of border, visa, and related fees:
The employer will reimburse an H-2B worker in the first work week for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government, incurred by the H-2B worker.
Provision of board, lodging, or other facilities
The employer will not be providing housing.
Employer contact information: Hope Landscaping, LLC 7209 Brudy Rd., Indian River, MI 49749; 231-420-1524; spencerhope1980@gmail.com
Instructions on how to apply:
How to apply: Inquiries, applications, indications of availability, and/or resumes may be sent to the MI State Workforce, which serves Cheboygan County, MI at: 11153 N. Straits Hwy., Cheboygan, MI 49721; 231-627-4303 and reference job order# (filed concurrently with MI SWA)
