TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – State Senator Jeff Brandes is looking to make a change to Florida’s minimum wage laws that would allow employers to offer a “training wage” which would be below the state’s current minimum wage.
Brandes, a Republican from Pinellas County, filed Senate Joint Resolution 382, which would amend the state’s constitution — specifically, Section 24 of Article X, the section establishing the state’s minimum wage.
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SJR 382, which could be considered during the 2022 legislative session, calls for the state legislature to establish a “Minimum Training Wage rate less than the Minimum Wage rate.”
Under the proposal, employers would be able to offer the training wage to any employee for the first six months of their employment.
SJR 382 does not specify what the training wage would be but gives a look at how it would be calculated.
“The Minimum Training Wage rate must be based on a federal temporary training wage rate, if any, or on the findings of a study commissioned every three years by the state legislature to determine a sufficient Minimum Training Wage rate,” the proposed amendment reads.
Read the full text of SJR 382 below:
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