by admin | Dec 10, 2012 | Florida Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage, Overtime
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has announced that the minimum wage in Florida will increase to $7.79 per hour as of January 1, 2013. Florida’s minimum wage is currently higher than the federal minimum wage. The federal minimum wage requires covered...
by admin | Dec 7, 2012 | Fair Labor Standards Act, Florida Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage
A study by the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy, Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University entitled “Wage Theft: An Economic Drain on Florida” found wage theft to be a growing and widespread problem in Florida. The Study...
by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Fair Labor Standards Act, Florida Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage, Tipped Employees
Some employers try to deduct money from employee wages to cover their overhead, which the employer should be responsible for paying. For example, a business may try to deduct money from a server’s tips for such expenses as uniforms, register shortages, walk-outs,...
by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Minimum Wage, Tipped Employees
On January 1, 2012, the Florida minimum wage increased by 36 cents to $7.67 per hour. In 2011, the Florida minimum wage was $7.25 until June 2011 when it increased to $7.31. The 2012 increase is equivalent to an extra $14.40 per week for an employee who works 40 hours...
by admin | Nov 11, 2010 | Fair Labor Standards Act, Minimum Wage, Tipped Employees
A former server at South Florida Barbeque, Inc., doing business as Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q, has filed a case in court seeking to bring a class action for alleged tip theft. Like many restaurants, Sonny’s takes a “tip credit,” and pays its servers $3.02 less than the...
by admin | Sep 10, 2010 | Fair Labor Standards Act, Minimum Wage, Overtime
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down a decision, Polycarpe v. E&S Landscaping Services, Inc., which rejected the argument by several employers that they were not a covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as an enterprise because their...
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