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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Yesterday (September 19<sup>th</sup>), The Supreme Court Issued an order clarifying details relating to the reinstated Wage Act. These are clarifications in response to requests
submitted by the MI Dept of Treasury and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Note that the opinion confirms $12.48 as a likely minimum wage amount for February 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Copy of Supreme Courts clarifying order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.courts.michigan.gov/4a6c1f/siteassets/case-documents/uploads/sct/public/orders/165325-2024-09-18-or.pdf">https://www.courts.michigan.gov/4a6c1f/siteassets/case-documents/uploads/sct/public/orders/165325-2024-09-18-or.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Please also note that other details of the new language is still awaiting clarification especially certain aspects of the Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Libraries preparing policies and adjusting budgets are strongly urged to contact their attorneys to ensure proper compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">More information and explanation of these changes will be forthcoming as available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Clare D. Membiela, MLS, J.D.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">517-335-8132<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">The research and resources above are for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact
your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">the State may not, consistently with the spirit of the First Amendment, contract the spectrum of available
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</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 482 (1965).</span></i><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Gongwer Alert--Supreme Court Clarifies Wage, Sick Time Act Effect Dates & Rates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Court Clarifies Wage, Sick Time Act Effect Dates & Rates </span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The Michigan Supreme Court today clarified how the state should move forward with a minimum wage increase plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">In an order issued today, the high court majority in
<i>Mothering Justice v. Attorney General</i> (MSC Docket No. 165325) noted the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity's and the Department of Treasury's calculations for a new minimum wage phase in plan were on track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The departments had asked for clarification on multiple issues, arguing there were different ways to calculate the inflation adjustment for the minimum
wage and that the court missed a phase-in percentage on the tipped wage increase (See
<a href="https://www.gongwer.com/news/index.cfm?article_id=631660101" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#3482EA">Gongwer Michigan Report, August 22, 2024</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Originally, the agencies had asked for the court to weigh in by September 15, but that date lapsed with no response. The justices were not bound to
that deadline, however, and today issued clarifications of key footnotes in the opinion initially authored by Justice Elizabeth Welch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Treasury is required to submit its wage increase figures by November 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Key in the order is how to calculate the inflation adjustment for the new minimum wage. The state presented several options but said Treasury believed
the court intended for it to begin calculating inflation on January 1, 2019, through July 31, when the adopt and amend ruling was issued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The department's calculations had the minimum wage increases at $12.48 in 2025, $13.29 in 2026, $14.16 in 2027 and $14.97 in 2028.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">As to whether the state correctly interpreted the court's remedy in respect to inflation, the order said the state was correct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">"The defendants interpret the opinion as requiring that they 'bring the statutory minimum wages in Section 4(1) current to July 31, 2024, through an
inflationary catch-up beginning January 1, 2019.' The defendants are correct," the order said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Justice Elizabeth Welch wrote a concurring opinion detailing where the drafting confusion may have arisen, while Justice Brian Zahra wrote a dissenting
opinion joined by Justice David Viviano.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The state in its filing also noted the original opinion in outlining the phase-in for the tipped wage skipped from 80 percent of the regular minimum
wage in 2028 to 100 percent in 2029. The law, however, includes a 90 percent phase in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The court agreed and said the tipped wage in fact would reach 100 percent of the regular minimum wage in 2030 rather than 2029 as it first wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Gongwer News Service will have more on this story in today's Michigan Report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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