(Lansing, MI) – A pair of bills have been approved by a state House committee and will soon be up for a full House vote to change the upcoming minimum wage hike and paid sick time law. Restaurant workers and owners have been pushing to keep the lower tipped wage in place, saying it that disappears and they earn 15-dollars-an-hour in five years, prices will go up, businesses will close, and many servers will have to leave their jobs.
The bills keep tipped wages at a maximum of 38-percent of the minimum wage and also exempt small businesses from providing paid sick time. Senate Democrats have their own bills pending.
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