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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: August 2014
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Is It Any Surprise That The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Supports Rick Scott? 8220;Very appreciative of y’all’s endorsement. I’m going to continue to work every day to…hopefully this year, we’ll have 100 million tourists, and next year, we’ll keep growing every year over the next four and half years,” said Scott. The attempt to cut the minimum wage may have been the re...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: February 2015
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Darden Sue By Servers Alleging Age Discrimination At Season's 52. Clients of the Law Firm of Lowell J. Kuvin were named in a complaint filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an age discrimination lawsuit against restaurant giant Darden, the owner and operator of chain restaurant Season’s 52. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An updated tax rule is causing restaurants to ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: July 2013
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Sick Workers Cause 20 Percent of All Foodborne Illnesses - Disney and Darden Don't Really Care. Sick Workers Cause 20 Percent of All Foodborne Illnesses. Likely because that worker doesn't have paid sick days. Likely because that worker doesn't have paid sick days. NPR reports that the Food Chain Workers Alliance claims that "more than half of all food workers come to work sick beca...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: February 2014
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Servers Fight Back Against Wage and Tip Theft. The company and its owner, Peter Ciarrocchi, Jr., have agreed to pay more than $6.8 million in back wages and penalties to 1,159 employees at nine of the company's locations, plus a $50,000 civil money penalty. Chickie's and Pete's is also settling private lawsuits alleging unfair pay practices for nearly $1.7 million. Under the Fair L...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: November 2014
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Monday, November 17, 2014. Strippers Win $10 Million Dollar Lawsuit For Tips And Unpaid Wages. Dancers at a strip club are due more than $10 million in back wages and tips, a federal judge ruled Friday after the dancers sued to be paid at least a minimum wage. We are very happy with the court's ruling," said the dancers' Minneapolis-based lawyer, E. Michelle Drake. There is a real mythology of the wealthy st...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: September 2014
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Sunday, September 7, 2014. McDonald’s labor decision is important for workers in the US. Why the McDonald’s labor decision is important for workers in the US", 23 Aug 2014. Overtime and Construction Workers – What are the laws in Florida? Construction workers in Florida are entitled to overtime, one-and-half times the regular wage, for all hours worked in excess of forty hours in a work week. Contractors and...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law: Kansas Supreme Court FedEx Ground Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors! Ruling May Have Implications For Workers At Franchise Restaurants.
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                                        Florida Restaurant Law - Fighting for employees rights as guaranteed by Florida and Federal laws. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Kansas Supreme Court FedEx Ground Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors! Ruling May Have Implications For Workers At Franchise Restaurants. FedEx Ground Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors! Ruling May Have Implications For Workers At Franchise Restaurants. Factors the court considered included: how much training the delivery company provided the drivers and how the drivers’...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Employment Law: March 2010
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                                        Saturday, March 27, 2010. Miami-Dade Has New Wage Theft Ordinance. What this means for employers in Miami-Dade County is that a simple oversight or misunderstanding regarding which employees can be classified as exempt or as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), may now lead to a finding that the employer has committed "wage theft.". Employers' Bottom Line: Employers in Miami-Dade County need to be more vigilant than ever to ensure that employees are properly classified and...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Employment Law: Overtime and Construction Workers – What are the laws in Florida?
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                                        Saturday, September 6, 2014. Overtime and Construction Workers – What are the laws in Florida? Overtime and Construction Workers – What are the laws in Florida? Construction workers in Florida are entitled to overtime, one-and-half times the regular wage, for all hours worked in excess of forty hours in a work week. Non-management construction employees in production, maintenance and similar occupations such as carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, iron workers, craftsmen, operating engineers, l...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Florida Employment Law: February 2010
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                                        Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Florida Tops List Of Hot Spots For New FLSA Suits. Law360, New York (February 09, 2010) - The number of new Fair Labor Standards Act. Filings in New York and Texas rose in 2009, but neither state came close to rivaling the. Volume of new FLSA cases in Florida. Law360 ranked the five busiest federal courts for. Wage-and-hour litigation and found the Sunshine State to be a hotbed of plaintiffs bar. Wage-and-hour law with respect to things like tip credit," Casey said. Florida'...