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Michigan Paid Sick Leave Initiative, Raise Michigan (2018)
| Michigan Paid Sick Leave Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Labor and unions | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Michigan Paid Sick Leave Initiative was not on the ballot in Michigan as an indirect initiated state statute on November 6, 2018. Raise Michigan proposed this initiative. MI Time to Care also proposed a similar initiative.
The measure would have required employers to provide employees with paid sick time. Employees of small businesses, defined as employers with fewer than 10 employees, would have been allowed to accrue and use 40 hours of paid sick time per year. Employees of businesses with 10 or more employees would have been allowed to accrue and use 72 hours of paid sick time per year.[1]
Text of measure
Petition title
The petition language used for circulation was as follows:[2]
| “ | An initiation of legislation to provide workers with the right to earn sick time for personal or family health needs, as well as purposes related to domestic violence and sexual assault and school meetings needed as the result of a child’s disability, health, or issues due to domestic violence and sexual assault; to specify the conditions for accruing and using earned sick time; to prohibit retaliation against an employee for requesting, exercising, or enforcing rights granted in this act; to prescribe powers and duties of certain state departments, agencies, and officers; to provide for promulgation of rules; and to provide remedies and sanctions.[3] | ” |
Full text
The measure would create a new statute. The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The indirect initiated state statute was filed with the secretary of state's office on June 9, 2016. The Board of State Canvassers approved the petition for circulation on August 1, 2016. Petitioners were required to collect 252,523 valid signatures within any period of 180 days before May 30, 2018, to get the measure certified for the election on November 6, 2018. No signatures were filed.
If the initiative petition received enough valid signatures, then the state legislature would have had 40 days to adopt or reject the proposal. If the legislature rejected or ignored the initiative, then the measure would have been placed on the next general election ballot.
See also
- 2018 ballot measures
- Michigan 2018 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Michigan
- Labor and unions on the ballot
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "Raise Michigan Initiative," accessed June 26, 2017
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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