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Florida’s lowest paid workers are being denied a raise guaranteed to them by the state constitution. In 2004 Floridians voted 3-to-1 for the state’s minimum wage to rise with the cost of living.

That means on January 1st, minimum wage should have increased to 7 dollars and 31 cents. Damien Filer with Progress Florida says adding insult to injury that the governor and legislative leaders are paying new staff thousands more than previous leaders paid.

“Right now they are six cents under that requirement. A mere six cents and they are refusing to do it. Yet at the same time we’ve got new state leaders, the governor and leaders of the legislature who are hiring political appointees at six figure salaries and turning around and tell the voters we have to tighten our belts,” said Filer.

188-thousand Floridians earn minimum wage. The National Employment Law Project and Florida Legal Services are filing suit against the state in an effort to force the Scott administration to issue the mandated raise.