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Employment law in United States — Florida

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

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  Florida Statutes § 435.05 — Requirements for covered employees and employers.

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  Covered employees and employers must provide screening information, cooperate with background checks, and give required attestations and notices.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.094 — Extraterritorial reciprocity.

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  This section lets certain out-of-state work situations keep or avoid Florida workers’ compensation coverage, sets a temporary-work test, and requires courts to recognize other jurisdictions’ law when needed.

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  Florida Statutes § 443.131 — Contributions.

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  Employers must pay unemployment contributions, and some domestic-service employers may report and pay annually if they meet listed conditions.

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  Florida Statutes § 443.1118 — Employer-assisted claims.

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  Employers in a mass separation may start an employer-assisted claim, but must send employee information securely within 10 days and give notices, instructions, and an attestation. Covered claimants must keep filing biweekly claims, and the department must adopt related rules.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.11 — Exclusiveness of liability.

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  An employer’s workers’ compensation liability is generally exclusive, but there are stated exceptions.

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  Florida Statutes § 443.1313 — Public employers; reimbursements; election to pay contributions.

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  Public employers generally must reimburse the unemployment trust fund, unless they elect to pay contributions instead.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.41 — Substitution of carrier for employer.

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  If the employer is not a self-insurer, the department must regulate so the carrier handles the employer’s compensation-related obligations and duties.

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  Florida Statutes § 943.134 — Release of employee information by employers.

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  Employers must provide employment information for certain law-enforcement background checks, and the investigating officer must show credentials and an approved release form.

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  Florida Statutes § 443.1215 — Employers.

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  This section says which employing units count as employers under the chapter, including wage, headcount, acquisition, and federal-tax-related tests.

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  Florida Statutes § 435.06 — Exclusion from employment.

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  Employers and agencies must give written notice when screening suggests denial or termination grounds, and employers must restrict, remove, terminate, or not place employees in certain vulnerable-person roles when screening or arrest issues arise unless an exemption applies.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.092 — Special requirements for compensability; deviation from employment; subsequent intervening accidents.

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  This section limits when injuries are compensable under workers' compensation, including recreational activities, commuting, deviations from employment, travel status, and subsequent intervening accidents.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.107 — Department powers to enforce employer compliance with coverage requirements.

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  The department must enforce workers’ compensation coverage rules and can issue stop-work orders and penalties against noncompliant employers.

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  Florida Statutes § 443.121 — Employing units affected.

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  This section says when an employing unit stays covered, can end coverage, or can elect coverage under the chapter, and it sets filing deadlines with the tax collection service provider.

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  Florida Statutes § 238.12 — Duties of employers.

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  Employers must keep records, give required information to the Department of Management Services, inform new teachers of retirement-system duties, and report teacher names and employment changes to the department on the stated schedules. Teachers who accept employment are deemed to agree to required deductions and other

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  Florida Statutes § 445.016 — Untried Worker Placement and Employment Incentive Act.

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  This section lets selected agents receive incentives for placing untried workers into full-time jobs, and it sets conditions for contracts, coverage, pay, and disqualification.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.091 — Law enforcement officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, or paramedic; when acting within the course of employment.

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  This section treats certain public law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics as acting within the course of employment when they meet specified conditions.

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  Florida Statutes § 440.381 — Application for coverage; reporting payroll; payroll audit procedures; penalties.

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  Employers must submit payroll reports and cooperate with payroll audits; false application information can be a third-degree felony.

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  Florida Statutes § 435.10 — Sharing of personnel information among employers.

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  Employers covered by this chapter must provide personnel record copies to another employer that requests them under this section.

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  Florida Statutes § 500.149 — Employment of help; expenses and salaries.

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  The department may hire needed help and assign employees to carry out food-related chapter provisions. Expenses and salaries must be paid from the General Inspection Trust Fund.

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  Florida Statutes § 445.055 — Employment advocacy and assistance program targeting military spouses and dependents.

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  Florida creates an employment advocacy and assistance program for military spouses and dependents.

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