Florida debates lifting some ***** labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
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Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: *****ren.
The state’s legislature on Tuesday
advanced a bill that would loosen ***** labor laws, allowing *****ren as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is ******, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.
The bill ****** through the Florida Senate’s Commerce and Tourism committee on Tuesday with five votes in favor of the loosened ***** labor restrictions and four against them. The bill will pass through two other relevant committees before being put to a vote with the full Florida Senate.
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