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In 2018, the Republican-led lame duck legislature prevented minimum wage and sick time laws from getting on Michiganders' ballots by adopting the proposals and then gutting them. Now, a new lawsuit is asking a court to overturn then-Attorney General Bill Schuette's opinion that the move was legal, and implement the original proposals.
The original proposals would raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $12 an hour by 2022 and increase wages for tipped workers, as well as allow employees to accrue up to 72 hours of paid sick leave. The petitions for the bills received hundreds of thousands of signatures.