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A Senate bill to allow workers to be paid less than the minimum wage got tabled on Monday night. The decision at the Senate ...
Today, we face a new pandemic: misinformation. Addressing it requires continuous engagement – and not just from doctors.
Lee, Collier, Charlotte lost 6,500 jobs year over year in March, in the tourism sector. It's usually the busiest month for ...
The Orlando Sentinel has condemned the Legislature’s Republican supermajority for its cruel treatment of the working poor, ...
For Suffolk Construction, the largest commercial builder in Southwest Florida that employs more than 200 people in the region ...
Presently making its way through Florida’s Senate is Bill 918, which is aimed at loosening the state’s child labor laws in significant ways.
"If we don't have them, we don't have anything," said Fort Walton Beach Police Department Lt. Kendra Stalls. "They are our lifeline when we are out in the field. If they are short, we feel it." And ...
The construction management firm, Hoar Construction, says the issue is that there is a shortage in skilled labor.
Frank Cerabino: Save us, sophomores: Florida's answer to worker shortage? Easing child labor laws Critics ... that his ...
"If we start deporting or scaring away 1.1 million noncitizen health care workers, things will get much worse ... almost 13% ...
One solution to strengthening our workforce starts in the classroom with high schools committing to vocational training ...
“An unintended consequence of Florida’s constitutional minimum wage is that it cripples an employer’s ability to provide more opportunities for unskilled workers in areas of pre ...