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The Blog for Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Minimum Wage Legislation

    Minimum wage implementing legislation - not that it was needed - is moving in the Senate:
    The proposal, unanimously approved in its first Senate committee Tuesday, includes little of the business-orientated proposals lobbyists sought this year in the House when they argued the constitutional amendment was so vague it would require significant a new law to implement. They also had pushed to make it harder for hourly workers who were denied the new state minimum wage from pursuing class-action lawsuits.

    But such proposals largely fell out of favor last week after a pair of senators - one a Republican citrus grower, the other a Democratic labor organizer - invited business and representatives of ACORN, the worker group that had pushed the minimum wage, to a meeting to hash out a compromise.
    But it still has this:
    [W]orkers who are denied the state's minimum wage must complain in writing to a supervisor, outlining about how much money they feel they are owed.

    If the employer doesn't respond within 15 days with the unpaid wages, the worker has the right to sue or complain to the Florida Attorney General's Office.
    As an aside, it is good to remember that
    71 percent of voters approved the measure, despite strong opposition from the Florida Chamber of Commerce, most business groups and most Republican state officials, including Gov. Jeb Bush.
    "Minimum wage plan embraced in Capitol".



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