Florida HB 433 (2024) bars cities from requiring private employers to provide paid leave, scheduling rights, or heat-stress protections. Jacksonville has no paid sick leave ordinance and is now preempted from adopting one.
Florida HB 433, signed by Governor DeSantis in April 2024, broadly preempts municipal regulation of employment terms including required paid leave, predictive scheduling, heat-illness protections, and other workplace standards covering private employers. The law took effect July 1, 2024, and explicitly voids any local ordinance enacted on those topics. The consolidated City of Jacksonville had not adopted a paid sick leave ordinance before HB 433 and is now barred from doing so. Florida has no statewide private-sector paid sick leave mandate. Federal FMLA still provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid job-protected leave for eligible workers at employers with 50 or more employees. Jacksonville city employees receive paid leave under city personnel policies only.
There is no Jacksonville paid-leave penalty because no ordinance exists and HB 433 voids any future one. Federal FMLA violations carry back-pay, reinstatement, and civil penalties enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor, but no city fine applies.
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