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Drew WilsonJune 20, 2018

A St. Petersburg medical practice filed a lawsuit in Pinellas County Circuit Court earlier this month charging that Pinellas County’s wage-theft ordinance violates the state constitution. The ordinance at issue in allows employees who believe they have been denied wages unfairly to file a complaint with the county Office of Human Rights. If the office […]

Jim RosicaNovember 16, 2016

Should school bus drivers get overtime pay for being stuck in traffic or “sweeping (out) the bus”? A group of current and former Sarasota County school bus drivers says “yes” in a federal lawsuit filed this week in Tampa. They sued the county school board for “wage theft” for not being paid for a long list […]

Melissa RossApril 24, 2015

Choosing the classic Avondale café The Fox to illustrate the point, Mayor Alvin Brown joined the restaurant’s owner Ian Chase for a news conference touting his support for an increase in the local minimum wage. Denying the move was an electioneering strategy, Brown told reporters he supports raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, saying it […]

Daniel TilsonMarch 26, 2014

Have you ever had part of your weekly salary stolen? By an employer using unethical or outright illegal means? Over, and over, and over again? If your answers to the first two much less all three questions are “yes,” then you know how unfair and awful wage theft is. If you answered no, then imagine […]

Tag: wage theft

St. Pete business says Pinellas wage-theft ordinance is unconstitutional

Sarasota County school bus drivers file wage theft suit

Alvin Brown calls for minimum wage increase

Daniel Tilson: Florida House wage-theft bill adds insult to injury