Minimum Wage

Florida is set to increase its minimum wage by one dollar. This is part of a constitutional amendment voters passed in 2020 that will see the minimum wage increase over the course of several years.

A proposal to carve an exemption in the state’s voter-approved minimum wage isn’t expected to pass during this year’s legislative session, Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, told reporters last week.

The rollback would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work full-time, including late nights and days longer than eight-hour even on school nights without required breaks.

Florida’s minimum wage will increase to $12 an hour on Sept. 30, as the state continues carrying out a constitutional amendment that eventually will lead to a $15 minimum wage.

A bill that would exempt minor-league baseball players such as those on the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels from the state’s voter-approved minimum wage was delivered Monday to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The proposal (SB 892) would incorporate into the state minimum-wage law a carve-out for minor-league baseball players that is in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Panelists at a virtual meeting Friday discussed Amendment 2, which would raise Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026.

Amendment 2, as it will appear on the ballot, would hike the minimum wage to $15 dollars per hour by 2026, if voters approve it in November.

Voters will get to decide whether to raise Florida's minimum wage to $15 an hour.

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