Bill Text: MI HB5479 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Labor: hours and wages; minimum wage; modify, and increase for tipped employees. Amends sec. 4 of 2018 PA 337 (MCL 408.934) & repeals sec. 4d of 2018 PA 337 (MCL 408.934d).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-26 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/21/2021 [HB5479 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5479-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5479
A bill to amend 2018 PA 337, entitled
"Improved workforce opportunity wage act,"
by amending section 4 (MCL 408.934), as amended by 2018 PA 368; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 4. (1) Subject to the exceptions specified in this act, the minimum hourly wage rate is:
(a) Before September 1, 2014, $7.40.
(b) Beginning September 1, 2014, $8.15.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2016, $8.50.
(d) Beginning January 1, 2017, $8.90.
(e) Beginning January 1, 2018, $9.25.
(f) In calendar year 2019, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $9.45.
(g) In calendar year 2020, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $9.65.
(h) In calendar year 2021, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $9.87.
(i) In calendar year 2022, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $10.10.
(j) In calendar year 2023, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $10.33.
(k) In calendar year 2024, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $10.56.
(l) In calendar year 2025, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $10.80.
(m) In calendar year 2026, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $11.04.
(n) In calendar year 2027, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $11.29.
(o) In calendar year 2028, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $11.54.
(p) In calendar year 2029, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $11.79.
(q) In calendar year 2030, or a subsequent calendar year as described in subsection (2), $12.05.
(1) Subject to the exceptions specified in this act, the minimum hourly wage rate is:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2021, $9.65.
(b) Beginning January 1, 2022, $11.00.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2023, $12.00.
(d) Beginning January 1, 2024, $13.00.
(e) Beginning January 1, 2025, $14.00.
(f) Beginning January 1, 2026, $15.00.
(2) An increase in the minimum hourly wage rate as prescribed in subsection (1) does not take effect if the unemployment rate for this state, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, is 8.5% or greater for the calendar year preceding the calendar year of the prescribed increase. An increase in the minimum hourly wage rate as prescribed in subsection (1) that does not take effect pursuant to this subsection takes effect in the first calendar year following a calendar year for which the unemployment rate for this state, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, is less than 8.5%.
(2) Every January beginning in January 2027, the state treasurer shall adjust the minimum hourly wage rate then in effect by an amount determined by the state treasurer at the end of the immediately preceding calendar year to reflect the average annual percentage change in the consumer price index for the most recent 5-year period for which data are available. The wage and hour division of the department of labor and economic opportunity shall post the adjusted minimum wage on its website by February 1 of the year it is calculated, and the adjusted rate is effective beginning April 1 of that year. As used in this subsection, "consumer price index" means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the Midwest region from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Enacting section 1. Section 4d of the improved workforce opportunity wage act, 2018 PA 337, MCL 408.934d, is repealed.
