In lame-duck push, Michigan Republicans vote to gut wage, paid leave laws
LANSING, Mich. — The Republican-led Michigan House was poised Tuesday to pass bills that would delay a minimum wage hike and scale back paid sick leave requirements, a lame-duck strategy that was endorsed legally by the state's conservative attorney general despite criticism that it is unconstitutional.
The legislation was pushed through the GOP-controlled state Senate last week and out of a House panel earlier Tuesday. The full House was expected to vote Tuesday afternoon, hours after people chanted in protest from the nearly Capitol rotunda.
To prevent minimum wage and paid sick time ballot initiatives from going to the electorate last month, where they would be much harder to change if voters had passed them, Republicans legislators — at the behest of business groups — preemptively approved them in September so that they could alter them after the election with simple majority votes in each chamber.
One bill would slow an increase of the state's $9.25 minimum wage to $12 an hour to at least 2030, instead of 2022. It would also repeal provisions to tie future increases to inflation and bring a lower wage for tipped employees in line with the wage for other workers.
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It's like they're saying fuck you to the Michigan voters for not reelecting them.
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