A referendum campaign on Michigan's new minimum wage law hopes voters will eliminate the state's lower minimum wage for workers who receive tips.

In February 2025, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill that made changes to Michigan's minimum wage. The legislation followed a Michigan Supreme Court order on the minimum wage that had ...

Petitions that could be coming around our neighborhoods aim to equalize minimum wage for all workers, increase school funding through taxes on high earners, and change how votes are counted.

Public Act 1 phases in an increase in the tipped wage for servers and bartenders, now 38% of the general minimum wage, until ...

LANSING — As promised, a group is seeking a voter referendum on Michigan's new minimum wage law that stopped a scheduled phaseout of the lower wage for workers who make tips. Voters to Stop Pay ...

Gov. Whitmer signs minimum wage and paid sick leave bills into law The group’s original proposal from 2018 was set to become law this February after a Michigan Supreme Court decision.

Under one of the proposals, Michigan's lower minimum wage for tipped workers would have gradually moved to 100% of the standard minimum wage. The tipped wage was $4.01 earlier this year.

The fight over the future of Michigan’s minimum wage is back on. One Fair Wage, part of the ballot committee Voters to Stop Pay Cuts, has helped launch a new referendum effort to increase the minimum ...

Business groups are sounding the alarm on two proposed ballot measures that would tax people earning more than $500,000 to ...