Florida Bill Blocking Worker Heat Protection Headed to DeSantis

Florida cities and counties would be preempted from mandating workplace heat-protection standards, such as one Miami-Dade County has been considering, as well as employee scheduling restrictions under legislation that’s headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for his signature.

The Florida House and Senate agreed on a final version of the Republican-backed bill (HB 433) on Friday, the last day of the state’s 2024 legislative session. The legislation would broaden the state’s existing preemptions of local minimum wage and benefits laws to also cover heat safety and scheduling measures, such as the predictive scheduling ordinances or “fair workweek” ordinances ...