A ballot proposal seeking to raise Michigan’s hourly minimum wage to $15 over several years will appear on the ballot in 2024 after petition signatures were certified, those behind the initiative announced this week.
In 2018, the Michigan legislature adopted, and then within the same legislative session amended, two voter-approved ballot initiatives, one to significantly raised Michigan’s minimum.
Michigan's Supreme Court agreed to rule if the legislature was wrong to pass then quickly amend two ballot initiatives in 2018 instead of letting them go to the voters. The issues involve minimum wage and paid sick leave and both were more extensive before the amendments.
The Michigan legislature was within its authority to amend two ballot initiatives in 2018, one to raise the minimum wage and the other to greatly expand the availability of paid sick leave to employees, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held. Mothering Justice v. Attorney General.