http://floridaworkers.com Protecting The Rights Of Florida Working Men And Women Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:24:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Governor Crist had a chance to stand up for the rights of working men and women across Florida and veto HB 903, a Bill that helps insurance companies to get away with wrongfully denying benefits to injured workers.  Instead, at the insistence of the business and insurance special interest groups he signed the ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=195 Governor Charlie Crist signed into law HB 903 which removes the word "reasonable" from a provision in Florida' Workers Compensation Act that was designed to allow attorneys representing injured workers to be paid a "reasonable fee" for securing benefits which the insurance company wrongfully denied.  Under the current law, the insurance ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=197 For eight long years the United States, under the mis-guided leadership of George Bush, took the wrong turn at every fork in the road.  Whether the issue involved stem-cell research, the war and occupation of Iraq, de-regulation/lack of oversite of vital financial institutions, lack of preparation and response to federal emergency situations ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=175 On September 15, 2008 Florida' First District Court of Appeals decided the case of Fast Track Framing v Caraballo.  In that case the court ruled that workers in Florida are not entitled to compensation benefits if their income is not reported to the IRS.  Although a worker is still entitled to medical ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=171 Florida’s Legislature is considering passing an amendment to the Florida Workers’ Compensation act, knowing full well that it is unconstitutional. On March 25, retired Florida First District Court of Appeals Justice, Richard W. Irvin, was not even permitted to address a committee of the Florida Senate about this Constitutional concern. This ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=165 Operators of three Asian-style buffet restaurants in Lake Worth, Pembroke Pines and Plantation, Fla., have agreed to pay back wages of $233,234 to 55 current and former low-wage employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Payments include $97,231 to12 employees at New China Buffet ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=160 Once again the Republican led Florida Legislature is in session and is considering measures designed to prevent injured workers from obtaining the benefits they need and are supposedly entitled to under the Florida Workers Compensation laws.  When the Workers Compensation laws were enacted the idea was to have a system in place that ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=151 Florida Democratic Senator, Dan Gelber has introduced SB 2280 to help level the playing field for injured workers in Florida. During the Jeb Bush years, Florida' Workers Compensation Laws were rewritten giving employers and insurance companies greater control over the injured workers access to medical care and further limiting the benefits that workers could ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=126 On Monday, February 16, 2009 Anitere Flores, a Republican member of the House of Representatives for District 114 in Miami, sponsored HB 903 which seeks to reverse the Supreme Court's ruling in Murray v. Mariner Health.  In that case the Court held that the employer or insurance company who wrongfully ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=110 El Atlacatl Restaurant agreed to pay $50,717 in back wages to 39 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the Miami eatery had failed to ensure employees received the federal minimum wage and overtime payments required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Investigators discovered that ... http://floridaworkers.com/?p=90