minimum wage

A state House committee approved legislation Thursday to scale back minimum wage and earned sick time laws set to take effect in a few weeks.

As minimum wages increase for tipped workers, so too will menu prices start to rise. Some restaurant owners are concerned about how much of a price increase customers are willing to endure for a night out.

The special state House committee formed to amend Michigan’s tipped wage and sick-time leave laws meets for the first time this week in Lansing. The chair of the committee, Republican Representative Bill G. Schuette, joins It’s Just Politics to discuss his goals for the bills.

A Republican-led state House special committee opened hearings Tuesday on scaling back parts of an initiative to increase the state minimum wage and guarantee workers paid sick leave.

Today, the impacts of increasing minimum wage on business owners. Then, the story of a citizen and veteran assumed immigrant and threatened with deportation. Plus, a visit to the Auto Show.

Michigan's public records act would apply to the Legislature and the governor's office under some of the first bills introduced in the new legislative session Wednesday.

Michigan workers can expect two increases in the minimum wage next year.

Michigan lawmakers are grappling with the minimum wage increase now, because over the summer, the state Supreme Court struck down a previous legislative action to stall the increase.

Supporters of a state law to raise the minimum wage for everyone in Michigan — regardless of whether they make tips — say lawmakers should leave it be.

HB 6056 would allow a new law that increases the state minimum wage to go into effect — just not for waiters and bartenders who receive much of their income from tips.