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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.
And the push-pull on efforts to abolish or save the tip credit continue in Illinois, Michigan and Washington, D.C.
Public Act 1 phases in an increase in the tipped wage for servers and bartenders, now 38% of the general minimum wage, until it reaches 50% by 2031. The tipped wage had been scheduled to equal the ...
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.
Pat Zabawa, who's on the campaign's board of directors, said Rank MI Vote will start gathering signatures "very soon." ...
Eligible beneficiaries have experienced the US Minimum Wage Hike 2025, which offers essential assistance to households ...
New pay floors took effect July 1 in states like Alaska and Oregon and cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Business organizations met ahead of Friday's Board of State Canvassers meeting to address concerns with two proposals which might appear on Michigan’s 2026 ballot, one on ...
A ballot campaign to create ranked choice voting in Michigan could start collecting signatures within the coming months. That's after clearing a step at a state elections board Friday.
Ultraconservative Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill with Sen. Peter Welch to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.