Increasing Minimum Wage

Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville has introduced legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage, but could also negate a ballot proposal seeking a bigger increase. Richardville’s bill would increase the minimum wage to $8.15 an hour by September 1, 2014. As written, his measure would repeal the current minimum wage law and enact a new one. If the Republican Senate leader’s bill is passed and signed by Governor Rick Snyder, it would put the ballot proposal to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in serious legal jeopardy, as the proposal would attempt to amend a minimum wage law that no longer exists.