Governor Signs NFIB Backed Changes to Paid Sick Leave-Minimum Wage Mandates

Date: December 18, 2018

Small Businesses With Less Than 50 Employees Exempt

 

LANSING, December 14, 2018 – The state’s leading small business organization in Michigan, the NFIB, praised Governor Snyder for signing recently passed changes to new paid sick leave and minimum wage laws.

“After more than a year of effort, we were able to fend off an extreme paid sick leave and minimum wage mandate that was forced on Michigan small business by outside groups backed by big labor and Hollywood celebrities,” said Charles Owens, NFIB’s State Director in Michigan. “The big money groups hired signature gathering firms and used Michigan’s initiative petition process to go around the legislature and the governor.”

Owens said that NFIB, and other business groups, were successful in convincing lawmakers to pull the paid sick leave employer mandate and minimum wage hike from the statewide election ballot by adopting the proposals. This preserved the ability of the legislature to amend the adopted laws by a simple majority vote and approval of the governor.  “If these proposals had gone to the ballot and were passed by voters, it would have required a three-fourths supermajority vote to ever change them,” said Owens. “That would have been impossible, and Michigan would have been stuck with the most stringent paid sick leave and minimum wage employer mandate in the country.” In the last days of session, lawmakers changed the new laws at the urging of employers and business groups.

Owens said that the changes signed by Governor Snyder included an exemption from the paid sick leave mandate for an employer with less than 50 employees.

“Michigan’s job providers are grateful for the efforts of the legislature and governor to scale back these ‘all or nothing’ proposals that jeopardized Michigan’s economic comeback,” said Owens.

More information on the changes made to the paid sick leave and minimum wage laws can be found HERE.

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