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Posts Tagged Miami-Dade anti-wage theft ordinance

Miami-Dade county Community Relations Board urges Senate to support existing wage theft program

By | 03.06.12 | 1:13 pm

Dr. Walter T. Richardson, Chairman of the Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board, has joined Miami-Dade labor and social justice advocates, business leaders and members of the clergy who support the county’s existing wage theft program.

GOP bill that would eliminate Miami-Dade wage theft ordinance passes in the House

By | 02.29.12 | 3:47 pm

The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill filed by state Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville, that prohibits local governments from “adopting or maintaining in effect law, ordinance, or rule for purpose of addressing” wage theft, the practice of employers stiffing workers out of the wages they are owed.

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