Michigan Justices Greenlight Worker Cases as Court Shifts Left

The Michigan Supreme Court—which has shifted even farther to the left over the past year—issued two worker-friendly rulings as its last term ended, adding to the feeling among some that the court is changing the way it sees employment disputes.

The decisions from July allowed worker cases to proceed for further proceedings, rulings from which the court’s lone conservative justice partially or fully dissented. Some employment lawyers said the perceived shift on the state’s highest court was also evident from a third decision from 2024.

“I think that the state is making sure that employers understand that they mean what ...