Fixing Earned Sick Time and minimum wage/tips must be addressed; stopping tax increases through employer-funded enemployment and workers’ comp, plus costly regulations is critical
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Legislature is considering numerous dangerous policy changes that could devastate Michigan’s economy. A number of bills, many only proposed in the last few weeks, had hearings and were advanced as the clock ticks down on the remaining two weeks of the 2023-24 legislative session.
The potential for the cumulative impact of anti-growth policy proposals now before the Legislature has the business community sounding alarm bells – but also stressing that urgent action is needed to make consensus changes to the Earned Sick Time Act to improve implementation for employers and employees alike.
“Michigan’s path to growth is at grave risk with the multitude of risky economic proposals proposed in Lansing,” said Wendy Bock, senior vice president of business advocacy for the Michigan Chamber. “The sheer number of anti-business, anti-jobs proposals currently in play in the State Capitol is staggering and concerning – everything from giving Michigan’s 1,800 local units of government the right pass their own local employment laws to drastically increasing employer-financed workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance costs to opening and incentivizing new avenues to sue businesses large and small.”