Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law controversial changes to minimum wage and earned sick time measures.
In September, the Legislature adopted measures that were headed for the November ballot.
The Legislature’s bills significantly scaled back potential changes to the state’s minimum wage and earned sick time laws.
Ari Adler is a spokesman for Governor Rick Snyder. He says the governor treated these like any other bills.
“He could not take into account what had happened with the public initiative and the action that the Legislature took because he had no role in that.”
Adler says the bills are good public policy that protect workers and employers.
Michigan’s minimum wage will increase to $12/hour by 2030. Employees will now be able to accrue 1 hour of paid medical leave for every 35 hours worked. But the new sick time law exempts businesses with fewer than 50 employees.