Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that in just a few short weeks, August 1, 2023, recreational cannabis (marijuana) will be lawful in Minnesota (under state law). However, recent news has also highlighted the fact that it may take up to 18 months for new cannabis dispensaries to obtain a license to
Effective January 1, 2024, all employers (wherever your office/HQ is located) must provide earned sick and safe time (“ESST“) for all employees (yes, including part-time and temporary) who work 80+ hours in a year in Minnesota. Employers may either provide the ESST via a frontloaded lump sum (48 hours if paid
I think I’m in movie mode; last week I was blogging Back to the Future, this week I’m channeling my inner Top Gun. In any event, on to the less exciting legal mumbo jumbo. With remote work and expanding businesses, many more employers have employees throughout the U.S., some of which may be military members
Duluth employers take note – the Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) Ordinance has been amended, and the revisions take effect August 19, 2021. What’s new, you ask? Here’s the good stuff:
Effective January 1, 2022, Minnesota employers with more than 15 employees will be required to provide PAID “reasonable break times each day” for a new mother (child less than 12 months old) to express breast milk. The Minnesota Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA) currently requires unpaid breaks. It also currently has no age limit, though
I have spent plenty of time in the quaint small town of Plainview, Minnesota (where the City snowplow is a tractor and dump truck team), and so it’s fun to write about this one, but I feel for the City (which voted to sell the liquor store in August 2020 while this appeal was pending).
Effective July 3, 2019, the City of Minneapolis’ revised rules implementing the Sick & Safe Time Ordinance Rules go into effect. Notably, non-resident employers (employers located outside of Minneapolis but who have employees performing work in Minneapolis) are now subject to enforcement. If non-resident employers provided employees with a paid time off program or paid
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, the Minnesota District Court (Hennepin County) upheld the status quo (remember the temporary injunction I wrote about earlier), finally determining that state law does not preempt the Minneapolis Sick & Safe Leave Ordinance, but the Ordinance cannot be enforced by Minneapolis outside the geographic boundaries of the City of Minneapolis.
Duluth is one step closer to passing its own Earned Sick & Safe Time ordinance (ESST), to go into effect January 1, 2020. Following in the footsteps of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Duluth’s proposed ordinance would require employers to provide employees with 1 hour of time off for every 50 hours worked. Employees would
As many employers are reviewing handbooks and policies for revisions for the new year, Employers without a business located in Minneapolis (but who have workers working in Minneapolis) should note that you do not yet need to comply with the City of Minneapolis Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance. On September 18, 2017, the Minnesota