What are the rules for landscape gardeners?
Special rules apply to landscape gardeners. (The same rules also apply to people employed to install and maintain swimming pools.) Parks gardeners and greenskeepers on a golf course are considered to be “landscape gardening” employees. People working on retaining walls, sprinkler systems and those who spray roads and industrial sites for weeds are not “landscape gardening” employees, nor are the office workers in a landscape gardening company. Landscape gardeners are covered by the following minimum standards of the ESA*: • emergency leave (applies only to employees in companies that regularly employ at least 50 employees) • family medical leave • eating periods and daily, weekly and biweekly rest periods (see the “Hours of Work & Overtime” Fact Sheet for details) • minimum wage • parental and pregnancy leave • regular payment of wages • wages are paid on a recurring pay period on a recurring pay day, and • written wage statements are provided for each pay. • severance pay • terminatio
