LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Restaurant servers and bartenders are urging lawmakers to make changes to the upcoming minimum wage hike that will take their pay up to $12 an hour next February.
The group Save MI Tips says that wage hike will increase restaurant prices and result in them receiving less tips, meaning what they are paid will go down.
Save MI Tips spokesman John Sellek had this to say on it as they demonstrated at the state Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday.
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in July that the then-Republican-controlled legislature’s action to adopt and amend the minimum wage increase petition was unconstitutional.
Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt of Van Buren County also called on majority Democrats to return to Lansing to take action to prevent what Republicans fear will be a disaster for the restaurant industry.
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