People gather together to ask the McDonald’s corporation to raise workers wages to a $15 minimum wage as well as demanding the right to a union on May 23, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A proposal ( HB 841 ) that would allow employees earn less than the minimum wage for work-study, internships, pre-apprenticeship programs, or “other similar work-based learning opportunities” advanced Monday in its final committee in the Florida House and will now go the floor for a vote.
The bill says that the employee’s decision to opt-out must be voluntary and that an employer cannot coerce an employee to do so or condition an offer of employment on his or her decision. The minimum wage in Florida is $13 an hour…