Effective January 1, 2007, Florida's minimum wage will increase to $6.67 per hour and employers who are required to pay the Florida minimum wage must prominently display a poster containing the Florida minimum wage.
Effective January 1, 2007, Florida's minimum wage will increase to $6.67 per hour
and employers who are required to pay the Florida minimum wage must prominently display a poster containing the Florida minimum wage. Florida's minimum wage poster can be downloaded in English and Spanish from the Agency for Workforce Innovation's webpage at:
http://www.floridajobs.org/resources/fl_min_wage.html. Click
here for a copy of the poster.
Displaying this poster will not excuse employers from posting the federal minimum wage poster. Thus, effective January 1, 2007, employers covered by the federal and Florida minimum wages will be required to display both posters. The Florida minimum wage poster contains the Florida minimum wage rate effective January 1, 2007, which is $6.67 per hour, and also contains the minimum wage for tipped employees in Florida effective January 1, 2007, which is $3.65 per hour.
Covered employers are required to display the poster in each establishment where workers covered by the Florida minimum wage are employed. Florida's minimum wage only applies to those workers who are entitled to receive the federal minimum wage under the FLSA. The exceptions and exemptions to paying the minimum wage contained in sections 213 and 214 of the FLSA also apply to the Florida minimum wage.
For more information regarding the Florida minimum wage, please see our previously issued
Legal Alert. f you have any questions regarding this issue or any other labor or employment related issue, please contact the Ford & Harrison attorney with whom you usually work.