(LANSING) - Snow day forgiveness legislation has passed out of a Michigan House committee. A bill would still count snow days taken during a state of emergency declared by the governor toward the minimum number of instruction days.
Tim Greimel is with an organization that represents many hourly employees in school systems, like maintenance workers and bus drivers. He says those employees only get paid if they work. The group wants the bill to make sure that hourly employees will be paid if snow days are forgiven.
"They live on modest incomes. Typically they make somewhere in the range of $10 to $15 an hour. They are not people who live high on the hog by any means," Greimel says.
Supporters of the legislation say those hourly workers can negotiate pay and changes to their own contracts.