The language of 2020′s Amendment 2 was clear and unequivocal. Florida’s minimum wage rate would increase every September, starting in 2021 when the statewide minimum went to $10 an hour. And it would go up every year after that, $1 at a time, until it hit $15 in 2026. After that, it would be adjusted annually with inflation. Employers whose workers regularly got substantial tips could claim a credit.
The language of 2020′s Amendment 2 was clear and unequivocal. Florida’s minimum wage rate would increase every September, starting in 2021 when the statewide minimum went to $10 an hour. And it would go up every year after that, $1 at a time, until it hit $15 in 2026. After that, it would be adjusted annually with inflation. Employers whose workers regularly got substantial tips could claim a credit.
This, of course, is Florida. Though Amendment 2 passed with a comfortable 86,000-vote margin, the ink was barely dry on the vote tally before the battle cry of “shenanigans!” rang out across the land. Lawmakers will be asked, in the coming January session, to pester voters with a tricky amendment that could hobble the 2020 vote and insult the voters who just told them, 18 months ago, that they wanted this shift.
They certainly balked at the first attempt, sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg. His 2021 bill would have asked voters to strip people with felony convictions, people under the age of 21 and — here’s the big loophole — “other hard-to-hire people” of any...
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