Opinion ID: 71035
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Performance of a line-job integral to business

Text: 55 Another non-regulatory indicator of an employment relationship between workers and a grower is the workers' performance of a line-job integral to the harvesting and production of salable vegetables. Aimable, 20 F.3d at 444. This factor is probative of joint employment because a worker who performs a routine task that is a normal and integral phase of the grower's production is likely to be dependent on the grower's overall production process. See Rutherford Food Corp., 331 U.S. at 730, 67 S.Ct. at 1477; Fahs, 166 F.2d at 43-44. 56 The evidence in this case indicates that the pickers performed a routine line-job integral to the growers' business of growing, harvesting and packing snap beans for fresh market sale. Turke and his crew were but one part of an integrated economic unit operated by the growers. Because the farmworkers performed a routine task that was a normal and integral part of the growers' bean production process, they were analogous to employees working at a particular position on a larger production line. They were dependent on the growers' overall production process, of which they were one small but indispensable part. See Rutherford Food Corp., 331 U.S. at 729-30, 67 S.Ct. at 1476-77; Fahs, 166 F.2d at 43-44.