The Michigan House OK'd bills retaining the tipped wage for restaurant workers and limiting the reach of paid sick leave laws taking effect Feb. 21.

With less than a month remaining until new minimum wage and paid sick leave laws are set to take effect, the GOP-led Michigan House continued to fast track two bills that would roll back some of the changes.

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill to block the state's minimum wage for tipped workers from into effect, while also attempting to limit paid sick time for those same workers.

A majority of Michiganders, including Republicans, support changes to the state’s minimum wage and paid sick leave laws set to take effect next month, per a 2024 state Supreme Court ruling.  That’s according to poll results released Thursday by Progress Michigan asking more than 500 Michigan voters their opinion about the changes which would increase

LANSING — The Republican-led House voted Thursday to keep intact portions of existing minimum wage and paid sick time laws rather than let new, more expansive replacements take effect in a month, a move to aid anxious business owners but one that would affect more than 1 million workers.

The Michigan House on Thursday passed legislation to stop tipped employees from becoming minimum wage workers, and to thwart impending changes to the state’s sick leave laws. The vote in the Republican-majority House was largely split along party lines,

A Republican-backed package of bills that would maintain the tipped wage system in Michigan has passed the state House of Representatives.

GOP lawmakers heralded what they feel are fixes to impending changes, while some Democrats pushed back. One local business owner shared his thoughts with 13 OYS.