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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