The Michigan Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned an order from a lower court that would have allowed the state’s minimum wage to increase even more this year than it already has.
The appellate court was hearing a case brought against the state regarding a minimum wage proposal that was adopted, in part, by the Michigan Legislature in 2018. In an expedited decision handed down Thursday, Jan. 26, appellate Judge Christopher Murray said the Legislature did not overstep its authority when amending that proposal before adopting it.
Back in 2018, national advocacy group One Fair Wage sought to increase Michigan’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the course of a five-year schedule. Under that plan, minimum wage would have exceeded $12 an hour in 2022, $13 an hour in 2023 and so on, and then it would have been indexed after that five-year period -- meaning the wages would automatically increase every year at a rate that accounts for inflation, so the salary would never lose its value.
Ahead of the 2018 election, the group submitted signatures showing significant support for the initiative. But before the proposal could go in front of voters on Election Day, the Michigan Legislature adopted the proposal and made it law, as it has the authority to do.
However, lawmakers changed the language of the proposal when they adopted it. Rather than reaching a minimum wage of $12 an hour by 2022, the legislature changed the year to “2030,” expecting to reach an hourly wage rate of $12.05...
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