Most businesses can be more efficient, but don’t know how. The Florida Sterling Council can help. The not-for-profit Sterling Council operates out of the Governor’s Executive Office, and offers performance excellence tools for businesses of all sizes.
State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan and Florida Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Mark Wilson discuss higher education governance, aligning goals and resources in the latest edition of The Florida Chamber’s Bottom Line.
The Florida Chamber’s Most Valuable Legislator award is the business community’s premier legislative award honoring a single lawmaker for their outstanding legislative leadership on free enterprise issues. The Florida Chamber’s Distinguished Advocate award recognizes lawmakers that helped ensure consideration of the business community’s legislative priorities, and furthered the Florida Chamber’s goals of strengthening job creation, advancing Florida’s economic recovery and helping to position our state to once again be the No. 1 job creator in the nation.
As a follow-up to our prior call to action, we need your help! The Governor’s office has now allegedly received more than 1,000 emails asking him to veto HB 1013. It is extremely important for Governor Scott to hear from you in support of this bill!
Latest results from the Florida Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council survey show Florida’s overall business health improving and nearly 40 percent of small business owners planning to hire more employees during the next six months.
For the third month in a row, Florida voters are more optimistic Florida is headed in the right direction, according to a poll released today by the Florida Chamber Political Institute. Up three percent since January, 35 percent of Floridians believe the state is moving in the right direction while 44 percent are not as confident – a decrease of four percent since January.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida’s voice of business, has tabulated nearly 7,000 votes cast by lawmakers during the 2012 regular legislative session on our priority issues and today is releasing grades earned by all 160 legislators on the Florida Chamber’s 2012 Legislative Report Card.
Building on an aggressive multi-year jobs agenda, the Florida Legislature supported 25 Florida Chamber-backed pro-business, pro-jobs bills – further reducing the cost of doing business, the number of burdensome regulations for Florida’s job creators and reforming Florida’s fraudulent auto insurance (PIP) system.
Late last evening, around 10:30 p.m., thanks to the strong leadership of House Speaker Dean Cannon (R-Winter Park) and the wisdom of Representative Mack Bernard (D-West Palm Beach), a bipartisan solution to immediately lowering your workers compensation premiums by an average of 2.5% passed the full House and is now waiting in the Senate for [...]
The Florida Chamber of Commerce applauds members of the Florida Legislature for avoiding a massive $817 million tax increase on Florida’s job creators by passing unemployment compensation tax reform.
