Lawsuit filed against state for failing to raise minimum wage
by Dara Kam | January 10th, 2011Advocates for poor and low-wage workers filed a lawsuit against the state for failing to raise the minimum wage to reflect inflation as required by the Florida constitution.
Lawyers for the New York-based National Employment Law Project and Florida Legal Services filed the lawsuit on behalf of roughly 188,000 minimum wage workers in Florida.
The agency should have raised the current $7.31 hourly minimum rage by six cents, the lawsuit argues.
In 2004, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment automatically raising the minimum wage each year to reflect the increase in the cost of living.
Tags: Agency for Workforce Innovation, Constitutional Amendments, Florida Legal Services, minimum wage, National Employment Law Project
January 10th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Exactly why I voted against this stupidity of tieing the wage to the index in the first place! Funny wages don’t go down if the index goes down. total idiocy.
January 10th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Another example of completely irrational legislation.
January 10th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Great, we can now push more people into the unemployment line.