
Michigan’s Last-Minute Pay Law Shows the Fight Over Tips and Wages Is Getting More Complicated
The state’s chaotic resolution of a yearslong battle is the latest compromise effort to satisfy workers, employers, and consumers in the absence of federal action. Michigan lawmakers brokered an eleventh-hour deal last week resolving a seven-year fight over what tip earners get paid. But the compromise wasn’t reached until 12 hours after the deadline, and…