Michigan’s scheduled minimum wage increase not expected to go into effect next month
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LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Bureau of Employment Relations, Wage and Hour Division announced that the state’s scheduled minimum wage increase is not expected to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2021.
Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act of 2018 does not allow scheduled minimum wage increases when the state’s annual unemployment rate for the preceding calendar year is above 8.5 percent.
Michigan’s 2020 annual unemployment rate is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Dept. of Labor. It’s calculated by using both average labor force and unemployment levels for January through December.
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