Coming January first, Michigan’s minimum wage will go up. State lawmakers in 2014 approved a plan to gradually increase the wage to 9.25 an hour by 2018, and MIOSHA Wage and Hours Program Manager Jennifer Fields says she wants employers to be well aware it goes up to 8.50 an hour at the start of the new year.
“We do receive wage complaints that people are not being paid minimum wage,” Fields told WSJM. “When someone believes they are not being paid correctly, they can contact our office or follow a wage complaint online, and then we can do an investigation and determine whether they were in compliance”
MIOSHA is currently reaching out to businesses to remind them of the upcoming minimum wage increase. It will go up again, to 8.90 the following January, and then to 9.25 in January of 2018.
