Michigan Court Of Appeals Rejects Minimum Pay Raise For Tipped Workers

By Gino Vicci, CBS Detroit

January 28, 2023

A 2018 ballot initiative that would have raised Michigan's minimum wage for workers and tipped workers has been reversed by the state's appeals court.

The three-judge Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court's decision to allow the minimum wage for workers to be raised to $13.03 and to $11.73 for tipped workers. Some tipped workers said they would rather not get an hourly raise if that means giving up tips.

Bionca King, a waitress at Zoe's Pancake House in Royal Oak, said she hopes the minimum wage for tipped workers doesn't get raised to $11.73. She would rather have low hourly pay and the ability to earn tips.

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