Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

181.66 EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK LAW; DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. For the purpose of sections 181.66 to 181.71 the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Employer. "Employer" means any person employing one or more employees, but does not incl…

181.67 WAGE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEX; PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN PROCEEDING. § Subdivision 1.General prohibition. No employer shall discriminate between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees at a rate less than the rate the employer pays to employ…

181.68 ACTIONS; LIMITATIONS, DAMAGES, ATTORNEY FEES, PARTIES, COMPROMISES. § Subdivision 1.Right of action. Any employee whose compensation is at a rate that is in violation of section 181.67 has a right of action against an employer for the recovery of the amount of the unpaid w…

181.70 VIOLATIONS. A violation of sections 181.66 to 181.71 is a misdemeanor. History: 1969 c 143 s 5

181.71 CITATION. Sections 181.66 to 181.71 may be cited as the Equal Pay for Equal Work Law. History: 1969 c 143 s 6

181.721 CONSTRUCTION BID EQUITY. § Subdivision 1.Workers' compensation and unemployment contribution costs. A successful bidder on a project must provide coverage for workers' compensation and unemployment benefits for its employees required under chapters 176 and 268, respective…

181.722 MISCLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Prohibited activities related to employment status. (a) A person shall not: (1) fail to classify, represent, or treat an individual who is the person's employee pursuant to subdivision 3 as an employee in accordance with the…

181.723 MISCLASSIFICATION OF CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. The definitions in this subdivision apply to this section. (a) "Person" means any individual, sole proprietor, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, partnership, inc…

181.724 INTERGOVERNMENTAL MISCLASSIFICATION ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ACT. § Subdivision 1.Citation. This section and section 181.725 may be cited as the "Intergovernmental Misclassification Enforcement and Education Partnership Act." § Subd. 2.Policy and statement of…

181.725 INTERGOVERNMENTAL MISCLASSIFICATION ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP. § Subdivision 1.Composition. The Intergovernmental Misclassification Enforcement and Education Partnership is composed of the following members or their designees, who shall serve on behalf of thei…

181.73 MIGRANT LABOR; HEALTH INSURANCE. § Subdivision 1.Health insurance requirement. Any person, association, organization, or other group employing five or more persons, full time, part time or otherwise, who come within the definition of recruited migrant laborers as hereafter…

181.74 FAILURE OF EMPLOYER TO PAY BENEFITS OR WAGE SUPPLEMENTS, PENALTY. § Subdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor. Any employer required under the provisions of an agreement to which the employer is a party to pay or provide benefits or wage supplements to employees or to a third party …

181.75 POLYGRAPH TESTS OF EMPLOYEES OR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED. § Subdivision 1.Prohibition, penalty. No employer or agent thereof shall directly or indirectly solicit or require a polygraph, voice stress analysis, or any test purporting to test the honesty of any employ…

181.76 DISCLOSURE OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS PROHIBITED. No person shall disclose that another person has taken a polygraph or any test purporting to test honesty or the results of that test except to the individual tested. If such a test is given after August 1, 1973 and at the emplo…

181.78 AGREEMENTS; TERMS RELATING TO INVENTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Inventions not related to employment. Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in an invention to the employer shall not a…

181.79 WAGES DEDUCTIONS FOR FAULTY WORKMANSHIP, LOSS, THEFT, OR DAMAGE. § Subdivision 1.Deduction requirements. (a) No employer shall make any deduction, directly or indirectly, from the wages due or earned by any employee, who is not an independent contractor, for lost or stolen…

181.80 UNION NOTICE OF INJURY OR DEATH. If a work-related death or work-related injury which requires a report to the commissioner of labor and industry in accordance with section 176.231, subdivision 1, occurs, a copy of the report shall be mailed by the employer to the employee…

181.81 DISMISSAL FOR AGE; PROHIBITION; EXCEPTIONS; REMEDIES. § Subdivision 1.Restriction on mandatory retirement age. (a) It is unlawful for any private sector employer to refuse to hire or employ, or to discharge, dismiss, reduce in grade or position, or demote any individual on…

181.812 RULES. The commissioner may promulgate rules which are deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of section 181.81. History: 1979 c 40 s 5

181.82 BENEFITS BASED ON JOB PERFORMANCE PROHIBITED. No employer may terminate or threaten to terminate: (1) group accident and health insurance coverage; (2) group life insurance coverage; or (3) pension benefits for an employee, including a commissioned agent, based on the empl…

181.83 CORN DETASSELERS; TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT. Upon termination by the employer of employment to perform corn detasseling, or injury to, or illness of the employee, the employer shall provide transportation to the terminated, injured or ill individual from the place of work …

181.84 CORN DETASSELERS; WORK CONDITIONS. Notwithstanding any state or federal statute or regulation authorizing sanitary conditions less favorable to the employee than the following requirement, every employer of corn detasselers shall provide a potable water supply in the field…

181.85 MIGRANT LABOR; DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. For the purposes of sections 181.85 to 181.90, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Agricultural labor. "Agricultural labor" means field labor associated with the cultivation and ha…

181.86 EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Terms. (a) An employer that recruits a migrant worker shall provide the migrant worker, at the time the worker is recruited, with a written employment statement which shall state clearly and plainly, in English and Spanish, or English …

181.87 PAYMENT TERMS. § Subdivision 1.Entitled to payment. Each migrant worker who is recruited by an employer is entitled to payment in accordance with this section. § Subd. 2.Biweekly pay. The employer shall pay wages due to the migrant worker at least every two weeks, except o…

181.88 RECORD KEEPING. Every employer subject to the provisions of sections 181.85 to 181.90 shall maintain complete and accurate records for every individual migrant worker recruited by that employer as required by section 177.30 and shall also maintain the employment statements…

181.89 CIVIL ACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.May bring action. Any migrant worker claiming to be aggrieved by a violation of sections 181.86 to 181.88 may bring a civil action for damages and injunctive relief against the worker's employer. § Subd. 2.Judgment; damages. If the court find…

181.90 USE WAGNER-PEYSER SYSTEM. An employer who uses the federal work clearance order system under the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, Statutes at Large, volume 48, page 113, as amended, is deemed to recruit the migrant workers who are thereby induced to travel to Minnesota to perfor…

181.91 PRESERVATION OF EXISTING REMEDIES. The remedies provided in sections 181.85 to 181.90 are not exclusive, but are in addition to remedies provided in other law. History: 1981 c 212 s 7

181.92 LEAVES FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS. An employer who permits paternity or maternity time off to a biological father or mother shall, upon request, grant time off, with or without pay, to an adoptive father or mother. The minimum period of this time off shall be four weeks, or, if …

181.93 NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES AND APPLICANTS OF BANKRUPTCY. § Subdivision 1.Notice. An employer shall immediately notify all of its employees in writing that it has filed a petition for bankruptcy or has had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it. An employer shall, in …

181.931 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. For the purpose of sections 181.931 to 181.935 the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Employee. "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire in Minnesota for an employer. Employee does …

181.932 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Prohibited action. An employer shall not discharge, discipline, penalize, interfere with, threaten, restrain, coerce, or otherwise retaliate or discriminate against an employee regarding the employee's compensation, …

181.933 NOTICE OF TERMINATION. § Subdivision 1.Notice required. An employee who has been involuntarily terminated may, within 15 working days following such termination, request in writing that the employer inform the employee of the reason for the termination. Within ten working…

181.934 EMPLOYEE NOTICE. The Department of Labor and Industry shall promulgate rules for notification of employees by employers of an employee's rights under sections 181.931 to 181.935. History: 1987 c 76 s 4

181.935 INDIVIDUAL REMEDIES; PENALTY. (a) In addition to any remedies otherwise provided by law, an employee injured by a violation of section 181.932 may bring a civil action to recover any and all damages recoverable at law, together with costs and disbursements, including reas…

181.937 REPRISALS FOR FAILURE TO CONTRIBUTE; CIVIL ACTION. No employer shall engage in any reprisal against an employee for declining to participate in contributions or donations to charities or community organizations, including contributions to the employer itself. "Employer" m…

181.938 NONWORK ACTIVITIES; PROHIBITED EMPLOYER CONDUCT. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purpose of this section, "employer" has the meaning given it in section 179.01, subdivision 3. § Subd. 2.Prohibited practice. (a) An employer may not refuse to hire a job applicant or dis…

181.939 NURSING MOTHERS, LACTATING EMPLOYEES, AND PREGNANCY ACCOMMODATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Nursing mothers and lactating employees. (a) An employer must provide reasonable break times each day to an employee who needs to express milk. The break times may run concurrently with an…

181.940 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. For the purposes of sections 181.940 to 181.944, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Employee. "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire for an employer from whom a leave is requested…

181.941 PREGNANCY AND PARENTING LEAVE. § Subdivision 1.Twelve-week leave; pregnancy, birth, or adoption. (a) An employer must grant an unpaid leave of absence to an employee who is: (1) a biological or adoptive parent in conjunction with the birth or adoption of a child; or (2) a…

181.9412 SCHOOL CONFERENCE AND ACTIVITIES LEAVE. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "employee" does not include the requirement of section 181.940, subdivision 2, clause (1). § Subd. 1a.Foster child. For the purpose of this section, "child" includes a foste…

181.942 REINSTATEMENT AFTER LEAVE. § Subdivision 1.Comparable position. (a) An employee returning from a leave of absence under section 181.939 or 181.941 is entitled to return to employment in the employee's former position or in a position of comparable duties, number of hours,…

181.943 RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LEAVE. (a) The length of leave provided under section 181.941 may be reduced by any period of: (1) paid parental, disability, personal, medical, or sick leave, or accrued vacation provided by the employer so that the total leave does not exceed 12 we…

181.9435 DIVISION; INVESTIGATIONS, REPORTS. § Subdivision 1.Investigation. The Division of Labor Standards shall receive complaints of employees against employers relating to sections 181.172, paragraph (a) or (d), and 181.939 to 181.9436 and investigate informally whether an emp…

181.9436 POSTING OF LAW. The Division of Labor Standards shall develop, with the assistance of interested business and community organizations, an educational poster stating employees' rights under sections 181.939 to 181.9448. The department shall make the poster available, upon…