
Minimum wage exemption moves forward
Jim Turner
News Service Florida
Contributor
The Florida House and Senate continued moving forward with a proposal that would provide an exemption to the state’s voter-approved minimum wage for certain workers in on-the-job training.
The Republican-controlled House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee voted 12-4 along party lines to support a measure (HB 541) that would allow pay below the minimum wage for employees involved in a “work-study, internship, pre-apprenticeship or ot