Broward County Commission Regular Meeting

MOTION TO DIRECT Office of the County Attorney to draft an Ordinance amending Chapter 20½ of the Broward County Code of Ordinances, which has “sunsetted” according to its express terms, to reinstate the administrative process and remedies previously enacted to address the nonpayment of earned wages.

ACTION:  (T-10:24 AM)  Approved.  (See the Yellow-Sheeted Additional Material, dated Tuesday, June 12, 2018, submitted at the request of County Administration.)
 
VOTE: 7-0.  Commissioners LaMarca and Ryan were not present.

A motion to direct the County Attorney to amend an Ordinance requires Board approval.

Directs the County Attorney to draft an Ordinance reinstating the Wage Recovery Ordinance.

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The above-referenced Ordinance was enacted by the Board at a public hearing on October 23, 2012. By its express terms, the Ordinance sunsetted five years after its effective date. Board action is required to reinstate the provisions contained in the Ordinance.

A study prepared in 2012 by the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy Center for Labor Research and Studies at the Florida International University highlighted the growing problem of wage theft in Florida. Wage theft occurs when workers do not receive the wages that are legally owed to them. There are various forms in which this theft can occur: unpaid overtime, paying employees at a rate lower than the minimum wage, working during meal breaks, misclassification of employees, forcing employees to work off the clock, altering time cards, paying employees late, or simply not paying employees at all.

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