BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS - WAGE & HOUR DIVISION
BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS - WAGE and HOUR DIVISION
- Wage Hour Select Tiles
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- Wage and Hour Division Mission Statement
It is the mission of the Wage and Hour Division to provide public service through the fair, effective, and efficient administration of laws which protect the wages and fringe benefits of Michigan’s workers and ensure compliance with the requirement that certain entities post notices related to human trafficking.
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Executive Order 2020-140 lifts certain requirements of the application process for young Michiganders to obtain a work permit.
Effective April 3, 2020, Governor Whitmer expanded certain protections associated with the Paid Medical Leave Act (PMLA) entitlements under state law due to the COVID-19 emergency. Here are a few key highlights on the expanded benefits:
- Protects workers who stay home when they or their close contacts are sick and pose a risk of infecting others with COVID-19.
- Covers most employees who work in Michigan and most employers regardless of the number of employees.
- This expansion DOES NOT APPLY to first responders or workers in health care, child protective services, childcare, or correctional facilities.
- This expansion provides time off for COVID-19 reasons with discrimination protection.
- Expansion does not provide additional leave hours beyond those already provided under the Act.
- Prohibits employers from discharging, disciplining, or retaliating against an employee who stays home to avoid infecting others with COVID-19 due to having, or had close contact with someone having one or more of the principal symptoms or a positive test.
- Prohibits employers from discharging, disciplining, or retaliating against an employee for failing to provide documentation that the employee or the employee’s close contact has one or more of the principal symptoms.
- Leave time used to stay home should be treated as PMLA time and paid using PMLA banked time (accrued or frontloaded), or unpaid if no PMLA banked time exists.
- Establishes time frames for the amount of paid or unpaid time off permitted.
Review Executive Order 2020-36 for additional information.
- Effective on Monday, March 16, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division will be closed to visitors and walk-in customers until further notice. If you have a question for the Wage and Hour Division, please email whinfo@michigan.gov.
- Paid Medical Leave Questions can be sent to PMLA-INFO@michigan.gov
- POSTER: Wage and Hour Posting Requirements For Employers
- The Michigan minimum wage effective January 1, 2020, is $9.65.
- Press Release: Human Trafficking Notification Act
- Directions to the Lansing Wage & Hour office
- Filing a Complaint for Non-payment of Wages or Fringe Benefits
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