Effective September 30, 2021, the minimum wage in Florida will increase to $10.00 per hour from its current rate of $8.65 per hour. The increase stems from a state constitutional amendment, approved by Florida voters last November, to…
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 and Morey Raiskin Florida’s minimum wage will increase effective January 1, 2021 as follows: Florida’s minimum wage will increase by nine cents from $8.56 to $8.65 per hour. Florida’s minimum wage…
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…
February 6, 2019 The Florida Supreme Court declined yesterday to hear the City of Miami Beach’s appeal of a lower court’s decision upholding a Florida law barring local minimum wage ordinances. As a result, Florida cities and other local…
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,…
BY: RACHEL D. GEBAIDE & TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE OCTOBER 13, 2017 Florida’s minimum wage will increase effective January 1, 2018 as follows: Florida’s minimum wage will increase by 15 cents from $8.10 to $8.25 per…
September 1, 2017 By: Timothy C. Haughee & Rachel D. Gebaide The Obama-era overtime rule that was temporarily enjoined at the eleventh hour last fall has been permanently struck down as invalid. In late November…
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…
