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The Republican-controlled Florida House of Representatives just filed sweeping legislation that would block efforts in communities all across the state to make businesses pay higher wages, provide better benefits or ensure safer workplaces.
The bill would dissolve local living wage laws, allowing contractors to slash pay for tens of thousands of workers at places like airports and construction sites. 
It would also prevent local communities from making employers meet any kind of basic wage, benefit or workplace standards.
It would even kill an effort in Miami-Dade County to ensure minimum protections for people working in extreme heat.
The legislation (House Bill 433) will be heard Wednesday in the House's Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee – on the very same day the committee will hear another bill (HB 49) letting employers make 16- and 17-year-old teenagers work the same hours as adults.
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