wages

In the Michigan Senate, a salary history ban is awaiting a floor vote. A similar bill in the state House of Representatives has been stalled in committee for around a year.

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield says up to 900 city employees may need raises to bring their wages up to what she calls a livable standard.

Some of Michigan’s early education providers are getting additional funding thanks to an expanding Early Childhood Educator Wage Initiative pilot program.

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.

Michigan’s standard minimum wage will increase by more than a dollar, $12.48 to $13.73 an hour. Smaller increases also go into effect for tipped workers and workers aged 16 and 17 years old.

Eighteen farmworkers, including some from Michigan, are suing the federal government because of a new rule that’s impacting their wages. The U.S. Department of Labor is lowering the minimum wage for foreign workers with temporary agricultural visas by up to $7 an hour.

On Election Day, we learn about the history of Michigan’s original constitution. Then, some features from Interlochen Public Radio about a whitefish hotspot and H-2A worker wages. And two women share their journeys of infant loss and love.

Wayne County juvenile attorneys haven’t received a pay raise in over 30 years, leading to a shortage of lawyers willing to take these critical cases.

In the eleventh hour, the Michigan legislature wrote a bi-partisan compromise to limit the state’s wage increases as well as change paid sick leave requirements. Sean Egan from the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity broke these changes down.

What could be the potential impacts of a new minimum wage and paid sick leave bill? Then, how does one become a volunteer lighthouse keeper in Michigan? Plus, the journey towards a Black Utopia.