Florida lawmakers want to axe child labor rules. Here’s the proposal

Florida Republicans Seek To Gut Wildly Popular Minimum Wage Law

The Florida legislature is rapidly advancing a suite of bills allowing employers to underpay subminimum-wage workers — including children. One measure proposes undoing key child labor restrictions, like rules regulating maximum hours per week, banning overnight shifts, and guaranteeing teens get meal breaks. Another bill would permit employers to misclassify full-time workers as interns and apprentices to circumvent the state’s new minimum wage …

Gutting child labor laws to replace immigrant workers who fled Florida

Immigrant activist Thomas Kennedy writes that, after a 2023 anti-immigrant law that drove migrant laborers from the state, Florida is now both gutting child labor laws and trying to find ways around the state's minimum wage.

Florida lawmakers want to axe child labor rules. Here’s the proposal

Florida lawmakers are pushing for revisions to the state’s child labor laws, potentially giving teens more opportunities to work.

Scott Maxwell: Florida Replaces Immigrant Labor with Child Labor

It was entirely predictable that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would create a labor shortage by driving immigrants away. Whether documented or not, immigrants are the backbone of the tourist industry and agriculture, two of the basic elements in the state’s economy. Once they were gone, who would replace them? Children. DeSantis is now promoting a reduction in child labor laws to replace the immigrant labor he criminalized. Orlando Sentinel colu…

To replace the illegals targeted by its anti-migrant policy, Florida's very conservative governor, Ron DeSantis, and the Republican-majority state legislature want to relax the labour laws of minors over the age of 14.