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Florida minimum wage: $15.00 since Sep 30
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State spotlight: Florida

Florida’s E-Verify requirement, in plain terms

What changed

Private employers with 25 or more employees must run new hires through E-Verify. A case has to be created within three business days of the start date, and the confirmation kept on file. The duty ties to routine state filings, so it is easy to miss until someone checks.

What to do this month

Confirm your E-Verify enrollment, run each new hire inside the three-day window, and save the case number with the employee’s records. We put the steps in order, with the dates that matter.

Built for the people who carry the compliance load.

  • HR leaders

    You own what changes

    You keep a growing team compliant and need to catch what changed before it turns into a problem.

  • Business owners

    You wear every hat

    You need the federal and state rules that touch your people in plain language, without a law degree or a full HR team.

  • Operators & risk

    You mitigate the risk

    You want obligations documented and the proof on file, so an audit is a formality, not a fire drill.

In development

Groundwork is taking shape.

The compliance platform we are building for growing employers: every obligation organized, every action logged, timestamped, and provable. It is not available yet.

Close-up of the Groundwork concept’s Self-assessment and Activity panel: 9 of 12 onboarding controls documented, up from 6 of 12 at the previous assessment, and 90-day counts of obligations closed on or before their due date, policy acknowledgments logged and training completions logged. All data shown is sample data.
One panel of the concept dashboard, with sample data. The full dashboard is on the Groundwork page.

  • Organized

    Upcoming deadlines sorted by due date, each with a person, a module and a status.

  • Logged

    Each regulatory update records who acknowledged it, and when.

  • Provable

    A 90-day activity summary counts obligations closed on time and acknowledgments logged.

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    As of March 2026, ICE classifies many I-9 errors employers historically treated as technical as substantive violations. That change, the 05/31/2027 form requirement, and Florida’s E-Verify layer all show up in the same file when an auditor comes asking.

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