Fla. bill would bar local crackdowns on wage theft

South Florida labor and worker’s rights organizations are mobilizing their members and calling on state senators to stop a GOP bill that would prohibit Florida cities and counties from passing ordinances that crack down on wage theft, the practice of stiffing workers out of money they are owed.
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Miami-Dade anti-wage theft ordinance is working, study shows

Florida state Sen. Goodson joins effort to block local anti-wage theft ordinances

Religious coalition in Palm Beach calls for countywide anti-wage theft ordinance

Florida Gov. Rick Scott cuts $2million from at-risk women and children program

Last week, Gov. Rick Scott cut close to $2 million in health services for at-risk women and children in line-item vetoes to the state budget. Among the projects cut was $200,000 for a pilot program to be carried out by the Healthy Start Coalition of Orange County More… that would have provided

Florida religious group to state Senate: save anti-wage theft protections

More…People Engaged in Active Community Efforts — aka P.E.A.C.E., a coalition of religious congregations from Palm Beach county — this week delivered a letter urging members of the state Senate Judiciary committee to vote against a bill that would curtail local municipalities’ freedom to crack down on wage theft. The

South Florida organization presses for local anti-wage theft ordinance