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Minneapolis, Minnesota Amends its Anti-discrimination Ordinance

Posted: May 18, 2025 | Littler Category: Minnesota - General Tags: Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota Amends its Anti-discrimination Ordinance

On May 12, 2025, the city of Minneapolis enacted extensive amendments to its existing antidiscrimination ordinance, including expanding definitions relating to protected characteristics and accommodations. The ordinance applies to employers of all sizes within Minneapolis, any employer that hires an employee whose services will

Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2025, Part II: It’s Déjà Vu—Lengthy Omnibus Bills, Buried Employment Law Changes

Posted: May 11, 2025 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

Last year’s Minnesota legislative session resulted in a 1,000-page omnibus bill that included significant changes to the state’s labor and employment laws. As this year’s legislative session comes to a close, we predict a range of developments in employment and labor-related laws to emerge in omnibus bills or to be

Spring 2025 Brings Changes to Minnesota Contractors’ State Affirmative Action Requirements

Posted: May 7, 2025 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) recently updated several documents on its website for Minnesota government contractors, including the workforce certificate application, affirmative action program template (now “Compliance Plan”), annual compliance report (ACR), ACR instructions, and nondiscrimination poster. These changes were presumably made to minimize conflict with President Donald

Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2025, Part I: Breaking the Tie to Make the Law

Posted: April 3, 2025 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

After controlling Minnesota’s House, Senate, and governorship since 2023, the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party’s legislative and gubernatorial “trifecta” at the state capitol is no more. The 2025 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature began with Democrats and Republicans tied at sixty-seven members each in the House and a slim DFL

Minnesota Court Rules Websites Are Public Accommodations Under ADA

Posted: February 27, 2025 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

Joining a number of courts across the country that have ruled similarly, the District Court for District of Minnesota held recently that the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) prohibition against discrimination in “places of public accommodation” applies to websites. In Frost v. Lion Brand Yarn Company, the plaintiffs, who are

Saint Paul, Minnesota enacts “wage theft” ordinance

Posted: February 4, 2025 | Jackson Lewis Category: Minnesota - General

Beginning January 1, 2025, the City of St. Paul, Minnesota’s Wage Theft Ordinance went into effect. The Ordinance largely incorporates the State of Minnesota’s existing wage theft legislation. However, similar to the Minneapolis Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance, effective in 2020, the City of St. Paul’s new Ordinance contains additional employer

Updates for Employers Using Private Plans to Comply with Minnesota’s Paid Leave Law

Posted: January 28, 2025 | Jackson Lewis Category: Minnesota - General

Minnesota is one of a dozen states that have enacted a statewide program providing compensation to employees during family and medical leaves. Minnesota’s

Final Proposed Rules & Updated FAQs Published Regarding Minnesota’s Paid Leave Law

Posted: December 17, 2024 | Jackson Lewis Category: Minnesota - General

Minnesota’s Paid Leave Division recently published final proposed rules (“Proposed Rules”) that, if adopted, will regulate the state’s Paid Leave Law. The Paid Leave Law establishes a benefit insurance program for paid family and medical leave for covered Minnesota employees and takes effect on January 1, 2026. The Proposed Rules

Election Essentials: An Employer’s Guide to Employee Time Off to Vote in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota

Posted: October 2, 2024 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

With Election Day approaching, here is a timely reminder for employers in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota regarding their obligations under these states’ laws to excuse employees from work to go to the polls. With many voters opting to vote early or by mail, the number of voters

Employers With 30 or More Employees in Minnesota Required to Provide Salary Ranges in Job Postings, Beginning in 2025

Posted: August 11, 2024 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

Effective January 1, 2025, employers with thirty or more workers in Minnesota will be required to provide salary ranges and a general description of benefits in job postings—a requirement that appears to apply to recruiting and staffing companies in Minnesota seeking candidates to work for employers in other states.

New Minnesota Law Voids Restrictive Employment Covenants in Service Contracts, Except for Computer Professionals

Posted: August 11, 2024 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

Minnesota’s legislature rushed through several bills this year affecting recruiting and staffing associations and other service providers such as property management companies. One such law may, as one member of the Minnesota House of Representatives noted, have “profound” consequences for service providers regarding contractual conversion fees. As the law is

Minnesota Passes a Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Law

Posted: August 8, 2024 | Jackson Lewis Category: Minnesota - General

On May 24, 2024, Minnesota’s governor signed an omnibus bill, HF4757 which included the new Consumer Data Privacy Act. The state joins Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Rhode Island in passing consumer data privacy laws this year.

Minnesota’s law takes effect July 31, 2025, except that postsecondary

Minnesota Now Recognizes Claims for Negligent Selection of Independent Contractors

Posted: July 21, 2024 | Littler Category: Minnesota - General

Companies in Minnesota that work with independent contractors should be aware of a new legal risk.  In Alonzo v. Menholt,1 the Minnesota Supreme Court recognized a claim for the negligent selection of an independent contractor.  Companies operating in Minnesota might be held responsible for inadequately screening their independent contractors or their

Minnesota Ban on Staffing Agency Nonsolicitation Provisions to Take Effect July 1, 2024

Posted: June 30, 2024 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

A new Minnesota law taking effect on July 1, 2024, will ban the use of nonsolicitation agreements by staffing agencies and other service providers to prevent their customers, orthe companies that contract for the staffing agency’s services, from soliciting or hiring the staffing agency’s employees who provide the contracted temporary

Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2024, Part IV: The Aftermath of Minnesota’s Legislative Circus

Posted: June 9, 2024 | Ogletree Deakins Category: Minnesota - General

May 20, 2024, marked the end of the legislative session for yet another historic and busy year for Minnesota’s legislature. Amidst endless shouting, a sprawling 1,400-plus-page omnibus bill, and ethical complaints, the aftermath of the legislative session’s chaotic end left Minnesotans in a frenzy, deciphering which specific bills passed.

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