By: Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin and Abood Shebib Hurricane season is only half over, with Hurricane Ida leaving a trail of damage across Louisiana and beyond, and Hurricane Larry swirling in the Atlantic Ocean,…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin and Rasheem Johnson On November 3, 2020, Florida voters approved Amendment 2, which raises the state minimum wage to $15.00. The increase goes into effect over time, with the…
March 8, 2019 The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking yesterday to increase the minimum salary for certain “white-collar” administrative, professional, and executive employees to be classified as “exempt” salaried employees…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide & Jill Davis Florida’s minimum wage will increase effective January 1, 2019 as follows: Florida’s minimum wage will increase by 21 cents from $8.25 to $8.46 per hour. Florida’s minimum wage…
December 14, 2017 By: Rachel D. Gebaide An appellate court has denied Miami Beach’s latest effort to establish a mandatory minimum wage for employees in that city. Earlier this year, Miami Beach’s minimum wage law,…
March 30, 2017 Miami Beach’s new minimum wage law, which is intended to raise the mandatory citywide wage to $13.31 by 2021, was struck down on Tuesday by a Miami-Dade circuit court judge who ruled…
November 10, 2016 By: Rachel D. Gebaide The U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule will take effect December 1st unless a federal judge in Texas issues an injunction after a hearing next week in…
BY: RACHEL D. GEBAIDE & TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE OCTOBER 15, 2015 The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (“DEO”) has announced that the minimum wage in Florida will remain at $8.05 per hour for 2016. The…
BY: RACHEL D. GEBAIDE & TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE OCTOBER 15, 2014 The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (“DEO”) has announced that the minimum wage in Florida will increase by 12 cents from $7.93 to $8.05…
BY: TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE JUNE 4, 2014 The minimum wage has been a hot topic over the last year, with many members of Congress pushing for an increase in the federal minimum wage rate and…
