paid sick leave

In the eleventh hour, the Michigan legislature wrote a bi-partisan compromise to limit the state’s wage increases as well as change paid sick leave requirements. Sean Egan from the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity broke these changes down.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed bills that change minimum wage and requires most employers institute paid sick days.

The bill cut the extra 32 hours of unpaid sick leave for small businesses but kept the 72 hours of paid leave for larger businesses. It also gives small businesses until October to comply with the sick leave law.

The Legislature faces a Friday deadline to make alterations to Michigan’s earned sick leave and minimum wage laws before a state Supreme Court order takes effect. Business groups and some tipped workers are pressing the Legislature for changes to the court-ordered resolution. They say the scheduled hikes in the minimum wage and a lot of the rules surrounding the earned leave policies would pose a hardship for small businesses, public safety agencies and employees who earn tips.

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That law is set to take effect later this month on February 21. It will require employers to provide their employees with an hour of sick time for every 30 hours they work.

Hearings on amending earned sick leave and minimum wage laws begin Wednesday before a state Senate committee. The laws are set to take effect later this month.

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The state House adopted bills Thursday to scale back paid sick leave and minimum wage laws before they take effect in less than a month.

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.