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Tensions were high at a Board of State Canvassers meeting over ballot initiatives to increase the state’s minimum wage and to require employers offer…

Business-backed organizations say two initiatives waiting for approval from the Board of State Canvassers should not be on the November ballot. One would…

Last week, two more business organizations formally launched challenges to proposals headed for the ballot this November. Michigan Opportunity — a group…

Michigan’s decision-makers are gathered this week on Mackinac Island for the annual Detroit Policy Conference. State House Speaker Tom Leonard is among…

The Michigan Manufacturers Association is warning that a proposal for mandatory paid sick leave could lead to stalled job growth in the state. On Tuesday,…

A group advocating for paid sick time for Michigan workers has collected enough signatures to put their proposal on the ballot. The proposal would allow…

Voters might have the chance to decide a pair of workers’ rights questions next year.A petition campaign to require businesses to offer employees paid…

When it comes to Michigan politics, two of this week's biggest topics were a proposal to mandate that employers let workers earn paid sick time and an…

If you work, you deserve paid sick time.That was the message of Democratic lawmakers in Lansing today who introduced legislation that would require…

Employers in Michigan would have to let workers earn paid sick days under a petition drive that got the OK to start collecting signatures. A state…