2012 Minnesota State Labor Law Poster Includes:
-Minnesota Minimum Wage (Updated)
-Workers’ Compensation Employee Rights And Responsibilities
-Minnesota OSHA - Safety and Health Protection on the Job
-Unemployment Benefits (Updated 12/2010)
-Freedom To Breathe Act
-Child Labor Act
-Age Discrimination
-Overtime Laws
-Payday Notice
-Emergency Notice The new NLRA notice comes with a mandatory size
requirement of 11” x 17”. Who is exempt from the NLRA Notice?Most
private employers are required to post the NLRA Poster. The law
specifically excludes public sector employees, agricultural and
domestic workers, independent contractors, workers employed by a parent
or spouse, and employees of air and rail carriers covered by the
Railway Labor Act.
For Minnesota Labor Law Poster Facts please click on Labor Law Quick Facts.
Minnesota has two minimum wage rates. Small employers pay $5.25 effective August 1, 2005. Large employers pay $6.15 effective August 1,2005. A large employer is defined as any enterprise where annual gross volume of sales made or business done is not less than $625,000. Many Minnesota workers are entitled to the Federal Minimum Wage of $7.25 per hour.*
An employer may not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate or penalize an employee regarding the employee’s compensation, conditions, location or privileges of employment. The employee, within 15 days of termination, may request in writing the reason for termination. The employer must inform the employee, in writing, the truthful reason for termination within 10 days of the request. Employers with 21 or more employees must allow employees to take up to six weeks unpaid leave for the birth or adoption of their child and to use accrued sick leave to attend to their sick children. All employers must allow parents to take up to 16 unpaid hours a year to attend school-related activities or visit early childhood programs that their children attend.*
*NOT LEGAL ADVICE OR OPINION. PLEASE CONSULT LEGAL EXPERT IN YOUR LOCAL AREA.
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