Florida · statute · Fla. Stat. ch. 448 · 28 active provisions
(1) Ten hours of labor shall be a legal day’s work, and when any person employed to perform manual labor of any kind by the day, week, month or year renders 10 hours of labor, he or she shall be considered to have performed a legal day’s work, unless a written contract has been signed by the person so employed and the…
Any person or persons, firm, joint stock company, association or corporation organized, chartered or incorporated by and under the laws of this state, either as owner or lessee, having persons in their service as employees, who shall discharge any employee or threaten to discharge any employee in their service for trad…
Any person acting as an officer or agent of any firm, joint stock company, association or corporation of the kind and character as described in s. 448.03 or for any one of them, who makes or executes any notice, order or threat of the kind therein mentioned and forbidden, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second…
If two or more persons shall agree, conspire, combine or confederate together for the purpose of preventing any person from procuring work in any firm or corporation, or to cause the discharge of any person from work in such firm or corporation; or if any person shall verbally or by written or printed communication, th…
If any merchant, storekeeper, employer of male or female clerks, salespeople, cash boys or cash girls, or other assistants, in mercantile or other business pursuits, requiring such employees to stand or walk during their active duties, neglect to furnish at his or her own cost or expense suitable chairs, stools or slid…
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, unless the context or subject matter clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings as defined in this section:(a) “Employee” means any individual employed by an employer, including individuals employed by the state or any of its political subdivisions…
No person, firm, corporation, unincorporated association, state agency, unit of local government, or any public or private entity shall deny or refuse employment to any person or discharge any person from employment solely because such person has the sickle-cell trait.
No person, firm, corporation, unincorporated association, state agency, unit of local government, or any public or private entity shall require screening or testing for the sickle-cell trait as a condition for employment, for admission into any state educational institution or state-chartered private educational instit…
A local government may not adopt or enforce any ordinance, resolution, order, rule, policy, or contract requirement regulating scheduling, including predictive scheduling, by a private employer except as expressly authorized or required by state or federal law, rule, or regulation or pursuant to federal grant requireme…
The court may award to the prevailing party in an action for unpaid wages costs of the action and a reasonable attorney’s fee.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly employ, hire, recruit, or refer, either for herself or himself or on behalf of another, for private or public employment within this state, an alien who is not duly authorized to work by the immigration laws of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States,…
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “Contractor” means a person or an entity that has entered or is attempting to enter into a contract with a public agency to provide labor, supplies, or services to such agency in exchange for salary, wages, or other remuneration.(b) “Employee” means an individual f…
As used in ss. 448.101-448.105, the term:(1) “Appropriate governmental agency” means any agency of government charged with the enforcement of laws, rules, or regulations governing an activity, policy, or practice of an employer.(2) “Employee” means a person who performs services for and under the control and direction…
An employer may not take any retaliatory personnel action against an employee because the employee has:(1) Disclosed, or threatened to disclose, to any appropriate governmental agency, under oath, in writing, an activity, policy, or practice of the employer that is in violation of a law, rule, or regulation. However, t…
(1)(a) An employee who has been the object of a retaliatory personnel action in violation of this act may institute a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for relief as set forth in subsection (2) within 2 years after discovering that the alleged retaliatory personnel action was taken, or within 4 years af…
A court may award reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs, and expenses to the prevailing party.
This act does not diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of an employee or employer under any other law or rule or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract.
(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Competitive solicitation” means an invitation to bid, a request for proposals, or an invitation to negotiate.(b) “Heat exposure requirement” means a standard to control an employee’s exposure to heat or sun, or to otherwise address or moderate the effects of such exposure. The…
(1) As used in this section, the terms:(a) “Employer,” “employee,” and “wage” have the meanings as established under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and its implementing regulations.(b) “Florida minimum wage” means the wage that an employer must, at a minimum, pay an employee pursuant to s. 24, Art. X of the State…
(1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Minimum Wage Act.”(2) The purpose of this section is to provide measures appropriate for the implementation of s. 24, Art. X of the State Constitution, in accordance with authority granted to the Legislature pursuant to s. 24(f), Art. X of the State Constitution. To impleme…
(1) For purposes of this section, the term “engaged individual” means an individual who provides a good or service to a business or on behalf of a business and who is remunerated for the good or service regardless of the individual’s classification as an employee or independent contractor.(2) Notwithstanding any other…
This part may be cited as the “Labor Pool Act.”
The Legislature finds that this part is necessary to provide for the health, safety, and well-being of day laborers throughout the state and to establish uniform standards of conduct and practice for labor pools in the state, and this part shall be carried out in accordance with this purpose.
For the purposes of this part:(1) “Labor pool” means a business entity that operates a labor hall by one or more of the following methods:(a) Contracting with third-party users to supply day laborers to them on a temporary basis.(b) Hiring, employing, recruiting, or contracting with workers to fulfill these temporary l…
Except as specified in ss. 448.22(1)(c) and 448.26, this part does not apply to:(1) Business entities duly registered as farm labor contractors pursuant to part III of chapter 450;(2) Employee leasing companies, as defined in s. 468.520;(3) Temporary help services engaged in supplying solely white collar employees, sec…