{"id":2634,"date":"2026-10-22T05:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kewlegal.com\/resources\/employee-legal-issues-florida-business-owners\/unpaid-overtime-wage-claim-defense-florida-employers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:42:53","slug":"unpaid-overtime-wage-claim-defense-florida-employers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kewlegal.com\/resources\/employee-legal-issues-florida-business-owners\/unpaid-overtime-wage-claim-defense-florida-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtime Lawsuit Defense Attorney for Florida Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Overtime Lawsuit Defense for Florida Employers<\/h1>

KEW Legal helps employers respond to overtime demands and lawsuits with a careful review of pay records, timekeeping, and classification practices. Kristina E. Wilson and our team focus on keeping your business's response measured and organized from the first letter.<\/p>

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By Kristina E. Wilson \u00b7 Published October 22, 2026<\/p>\n\n

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An overtime lawsuit defense attorney helps a Florida employer answer a pay claim before it grows into a larger dispute. KEW Legal is a Florida business law firm with offices in Coral Gables and Sunny Isles Beach. Its lawyers focus on employment matters for employers, as part of outside general counsel work for businesses in Miami-Dade and South Florida. This page explains what wage claim defense covers, how the process runs, and why timing matters.<\/p>\n

What Overtime and Wage Claim Defense Covers for Florida Employers<\/h2>\n

Wage claim defense means representing an employer when a worker says they were paid too little for overtime or minimum wage.<\/p>\n

Florida adds its own rules on top of that.<\/p>\n

Florida’s minimum wage comes from Article X, Section 24 of the Florida Constitution<\/a>. The Florida minimum wage is recalculated yearly on September 30, based on the Consumer Price Index, under Section 448.109(3)<\/a>(a). After that, the rate adjusts each year for inflation.<\/p>\n

Florida law also addresses daily overtime, but under \u00a7 448.01<\/a> that limit applies only to persons employed to perform manual labor. Under \u00a7 448.01<\/a>, ten hours of labor is a legal day’s work unless a signed written contract sets a different number of daily hours. Under Florida law, 10 hours of labor is a legal day’s work for a person employed to perform manual labor of any kind by the day, week, month or year, unless a written contract signed by the employee and the employer requires a less or greater number of hours daily; without such a written contract, the employee is entitled to extra pay for all work the employer requires in excess of 10 hours’ labor daily (Fla. Stat. \u00a7 448.01<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This service fits employers in these situations:<\/p>\n