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[FL] $6.15 minimum wage will be up for a vote
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| Contributor | CBlock941 |
| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jul 28, 2004 09:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Orlando Sentinel |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In what may turn into a bruising campaign pitting business against labor, Florida voters will decide this fall on a constitutional amendment setting the state minimum wage at $6.15 an hour.
Proponents of the effort have collected enough signatures, according to the Florida Division of Elections, to put the question on a statewide ballot in November.
If approved, it would force businesses to pay $1 more an hour than the federal minimum wage. That rate -- which works out to $10,712 annually -- hasn't increased in seven years, a fact amendment supporters have seized on.
At $6.15 an hour, full-time workers would make just less than $13,000 a year.
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