2025 Senate Bill 8

Labor: hours and wages; minimum hourly wage rate; modify.

A bill to amend 2018 PA 337, entitled “Improved workforce opportunity wage act,” by amending sections 4, 4d, and 10 (MCL 408.934, 408.934d, and 408.940).

Mackinac Center Analysis

This is the Senate version of how to fix the tipped minimum wage law set to take effect in early 2025. This approach would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2027, adjust it annually for inflation, and set specific conditions for tipped employees, while outlining exemptions and compliance requirements. This is necessary to ward off a MI Supreme Court ruling that struck down the legislative tactic of "adopt and amend" and implemented a proposed ballot initiative that never went before the voters.

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 8, 2025

Introduced by Sen. Kevin Hertel (D-12)

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs