Minimum Wage/ Tipped employees

[James48]

The Michigan Appeals Court case had arguments today.

Unless overturned, the tipped minimum wage increase and the sick leave provisions would go into affect in a few months. (February) .

From tomorrow’s Detroit Free Press:


“ A panel of Court of Appeals judges in Detroit heard arguments over a July court ruling that would see Michigan’s minimum wage rise to $13.03 an hour and raise the tipped minimum wage to $11.73 an hour starting in mid-February.


At issue is whether the Michigan Legislature has the constitutional authority to adopt petition initiatives as law and amend the initiatives in the same legislative session.

Court of Claims Judge Douglas Shapiro previously ruled the Michigan Legislature acted unconstitutionally in 2018 when it adopted legislation created through a petition initiative originally intended to enact the wage changes, but in the same session amended the language to put in lower wage thresholds that increased the minimum wage to $12.05 by 2030 instead of 2022 and kept the tipped minimum wage at 38% of the standard one. The tipped minimum wage is the pay rate given to employees who are expected to make the bulk of their earnings through tips, like restaurant servers and bartenders.”

More:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/13/michigan-minimum-wage-sick-time-law/69720116007/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I hope that happens.

I have never worked in a job where I depended on tips, and the older I get the more generously I tip. I often go out to lunch with a friend who himself was a sommelier in a local restaurant for a decade or so, and he is always chiding me that I am leaving too large a tip. I don't care what he leaves, but I will leave what I want to leave.