Theodore Roosevelt “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
EMPLOYEES OF ASIAN BUFFET RESTAURANTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA GET MORE THAN $233,000 BACK PAY »
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 (Lake Worth), $58,849 to 18 [...]
ANOTHER ASSAULT ON THE RIGHTS OF INJURED WORKERS »
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 withholds benefits from an injured [...]
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INSURANCE RATE INCREASE APPROVED »
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty issued a final order approving a 6.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates, based on an amended filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). The approved increase applies to new and renewal business and will become effective April 1.
NCCI previously requested an 8.9 percent rate increase as [...]
FIRED FOR MAKING A WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIM? »
Florida Law prohibits an employer from harassing or firing an employee for making a claim to get workers compensation benefits. The need for this protection is growing as the economy slides deeper into a recession and employers are looking to protect their own financial interests. Many employers (especially large self insured companies) try to discourage [...]
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF INJURED WORKERS »
On October 23, 2008 the Florida Supreme Court rendered an opinion in the case of Emma Murray v. Mariner Health Inc. In that case the Court ruled that attorneys representing injured workers were allowed to recover reasonable fees for helping workers to obtain statutory benefits where the insurance company or the employer refused to provide [...]
