took it off the ballot initiative
— they could then modify it
at a later date with a simple
majority just like any other
law that’s passed,” Robinson
said. “So this kind of enabled
them to do it, then they rushed
to do it during lame duck
because this is the last period
of time they have before Gov.
Whitmer will take over, and
she would without a doubt
veto any efforts to change this
minimum wage law.”
After the changes, S.B.
1711
raises
the
minimum
wage to $12 by 2030 instead
of 2022. It also raises the
tipped minimum wage to $4
instead of merging it with the
standard $12 minimum wage.
Because the ballot proposal
received enough signatures
to appear on the Nov. 6 ballot,
Wallace Hopp, a professor of
business
and
engineering,
said he was taken aback by the
Senate Republicans’ changes
to the initiatives.
“I’m
shocked
with
the
boldness
with
which
the
legislature
has
overturned
what apparently is the public
will,”
Hopp
said.
“They
passed these laws basically to
prevent them from going on
the ballot, then immediately
after the election amended
them.”
Hopp
said
though
increasing the minimum wage
would cause some decrease in
jobs, he thinks the benefits
from a higher minimum wage
would more than offset the
drawbacks.
“The big issue of income
inequality in which we’ve seen
the upper tier of the income
distribution gain hugely over
the past decade, while the
bottom has stagnated,” Hopp
said. “These minimum wage
increases do bring up the
bottom of the distribution,
and so I think we’re losing
a significant opportunity to
get more people to a living
wage in the state of Michigan,
and what we’re getting in
return is a very tiny boost in
employment.”
Maria
Ibarra-Frayre,
the Southeastern Michigan
Regional Organizer for We
the People Michigan, has
been educating citizens on
the lame duck session and the
bills state Republicans are
trying to pass. Ibarra-Frayre
said the legislature’s cuts to
minimum
wage
increases
will harm working families,
many of whom have been
told their source of economic
difficulties is caused by other
disadvantaged groups.
“I think this is hurting a
lot of working families, who
have
been
struggling
for
years, who have been fed this
narrative that the reason why
they’re struggling is because
some other marginalized
community is to blame,”
Ibarra-Frayre said.
LSA
junior
Austin
McIntosh,
communications
chair
for
the
University’s
chapter of the College
Republicans,
said
he
does
not
think
the
government
should
mandate how businesses
pay their employees at
all.
“I don’t believe in
the
minimum
wage,”
McIntosh said. “I don’t
believe
that
there’s
any unfair wage in the
United States because
nobody forces you to
take the job.”
Along
with
his
libertarian
principles,
McIntosh also opposes
a
minimum
wage
increase
because
a
higher
minimum
wage
can
compel
employers to hire fewer
employees and increase
employment of workers
with higher skills.
“Another thing is half of
the people that get minimum
wage are teenagers or young
adults
living
with
their
parents,”
McIntosh
said.
“Historically, when we raise
the minimum wage, we put
those people out of work
because businesses start to
hire more adults, more older
people.”
Though Hopp recognizes
the
opposition
by
some
business owners to higher
labor costs, he said now would
be an opportune time to raise
the minimum wage.
“I’m sure that big employers
like it at the margin, it’s less
costly for sure,” Hopp said.
“On the other hand, we’ve
seen 10 years of economic
growth, we have a very, very
low unemployment. If we
were going to do this kind of
thing, now would have been
the time to do it.”
After the changes, S.B. 1175
allows workers to have one
hour of paid sick leave per 40
hours of work instead of per 30
hours of work. Similar to his
view on minimum wage laws,
McIntosh does not believe the
government
should
decide
how many hours of paid
sick leave businesses should
provide their employees.
“If a company wants to
offer sick leave, yeah, why
not?” McIntosh said. “But I
don’t think the government
has to mandate it.”
In addition to benefiting
the sick employee, Ibarra-
Frayre
said
offering
an
adequate
amount
of
paid
sick leave hours is essential
to
maintaining
healthy
workplaces.
“In reality, who wants to
have a sick employee come
to their place of work and
then get everyone else sick?”
Ibarra-Frayre said. “If you
working at a restaurant and
you’re there, that’s a liability
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