The ruling, raising the minimum wage and phasing out a lower wage for tipped workers, said legislators had acted improperly in dodging a referendum. Wages and Salaries, Decisions and Verdicts, Michigan, Labor and Jobs, Minimum Wage, Tips and Tipping, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Supreme Courts (State), Law and Legislation, Restaurants, Bars and Nightclubs, Referendums, Waiters and Waitresses, State Legislatures The ruling, raising the minimum wage and phasing out a lower wage for tipped workers, said legislators had acted improperly in dodging a referendum. NYT > Business