Florida minimum wage hike beginning Monday involves complications, contradictions
It took years of debate, a constitutional amendment, legal wrangling and an approval by the state’s voters but Florida’s new minimum wage policy will finally go into effect on Monday, officially rising to $13 an hour, a mark many say is long overdue.
A 2022 referendum seeking the constitutional amendment got just enough approval by 6.39 million votes in favor as opposed to 4.11 million voters casting ballots against the measure. But the amendment cleared the needed supermajority criteria of 60% with 60.82% approving as opposed to 39.18% against.
While the constitutional amendment jacks up minimum wages from $12 an hour to $13 an hour as of Monday, it will keep rising annually until 2026.
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