The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXI
LABOR

Chapter 448
GENERAL LABOR REGULATIONS

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F.S. 448.05

448.05 Seats to be furnished for employees in stores; penalty.—If any merchant, storekeeper, employer of male or female clerks, salespeople, cash boys or cash girls, or other assistants, in mercantile or other business pursuits, requiring such employees to stand or walk during their active duties, neglect to furnish at his or her own cost or expense suitable chairs, stools or sliding seats attached to the counters or walls, for the use of such employees when not engaged in their active work, and not required to be on their feet in the proper performance of their several duties; or refuse to permit their said employees to make reasonable use of said seats during business hours, for purposes of necessary rest, and when such use will not interfere with humane or reasonable requirements of their employment, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—s. 1, ch. 4762, 1899; GS 3235; RGS 5068; CGL 7170; s. 376, ch. 71-136; s. 166, ch. 97-103.

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Amendments to 448.05

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 448.05

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S448.05 - HEALTH-SAFETY - FAIL TO FURNISH SEATS TO STORE EMPLOYEES - M: S

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

BERNALES, v. MERCY HEALTH SYSTEMS,, 128 F. App'x 516 (7th Cir. 2005)

. . . . § 448.05(6)(e), and then would have to pass at least the first two exams again (it is unclear from . . .

In A. LUMAN, A. v. A. s, 238 B.R. 697 (Bankr. N.D. Ohio 1999)

. . . Dollars ($2,214.55), leaving her a short fall of well over Four Hundred Forty-eight and 05/100 Dollars ($448.05 . . .

In GEORGIA MFG. PUBLIC SERVICE CO., 166 F. 964 (N.D. Ga. 1909)

. . . this period was $24,274, from the waterworks $18,353 gross, and from the paper mill the sum of $360, 448.05 . . .