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handle is hein.ssl/ssmi0239 and id is 1 raw text is: Act No. 1 Public Acts of 2025 Approved by the Governor February 21, 2025 Filed with the Secretary of State February 21, 2025 EFFECTIVE DATE: February 21, 2025 STATE OF MICHIGAN 103RD LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2025 Introduced by Senator Hertel ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 8 AN ACT to amend 2018 PA 337, entitled An initiation of legislation to enact the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act which would fix minimum wages for employees within this state; prohibit wage discrimination; provide for a wage deviation board; provide for the administration and enforcement of the act; prescribe penalties for the violation of the act; and supersede certain acts and parts of acts including 2014 PA 138, by amending sections 2, 4, 4d, 9, and 10 (MCL 408.932, 408.934, 408.934d, 408.939, and 408.940). The People of the State of Michigan enact: Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) Commissioner or director means the director of the department of labor and economic opportunity. (b) Employ means to engage, suffer, or permit to work. (c) Employee means an individual not less than 16 years of age employed by an employer on the premises of the employer or at a fixed site designated by the employer, and includes a minor employed subject to section 15(1) of the youth employment standards act, 1978 PA 90, MCL 409.115. (d) Employer means a person, firm, or corporation, including this state and political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities of this state, and a person acting in the interest of the employer, that employs 2 or more employees at any 1 time within a calendar year. An employer is subject to this act during the remainder of that calendar year. Except as specifically provided in the franchise agreement, as between a franchisee and franchisor, the franchisee is considered the sole employer of workers for whom the franchisee provides a benefit plan or pays wages. Sec. 4. (1) Subject to the exceptions specified in this act, the minimum hourly wage rate is: (a) Beginning February 21, 2025, $12.48. (b) Beginning January 1, 2026, $13.73. (c) Beginning January 1, 2027, $15.00. (2) Every October beginning in October, 2027, the state treasurer shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate. The adjustment must increase the minimum wage by the rate of inflation. The state treasurer shall calculate the increase by multiplying the otherwise applicable minimum wage by the 12-month percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for the midwest region, CPI-U, or a successor index, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, based on the most recent 12-month period for which data are available. The state treasurer shall publish the adjusted minimum wage rate by November 1 of the year in which it is calculated. The adjusted minimum wage rate is effective beginning January 1 of the immediately succeeding year. (1)