Monday's Afternoon Update
Monday's Afternoon Update | 2/8/2021 ‘Tremendous fight’ looms in Florida over excluding ‘hard-to-hire’ workers from the minimum wage Just a few months after Floridians voted to raise the state’s minimum wage, Florida lawmakers are considering a proposal that would exempt more than 2 million workers from it. Introduced by Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Pinellas County Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the proposal, if passed this upcoming legislative session, would place an amendment on the 2022 ballot authorizing lawmakers to create a lower “training wage” for wo...
Source: floridatrend.com