Minnesota Minimum Wage Increases Tomorrow Starting tomorrow, August 1, 2015, the minimum wage will increase in Minnesota (Minn. Stat. 177.24). For large employers, who do more than $500,000 worth of business annually, the minimum wage will be raised from $8.00 to $9.00 per hour. For small employers,
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The latest in a line of class litigation lawsuits under the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state laws has settled, with Elite Model Management agreeing to pay $450,000. This is the largest settlement for unpaid interns so far. On the heels of another case involving unpaid
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Bars and restaurants can loose a significant chunk of their profits to customer walk-outs (also known as “dine and dash”) and customers forgetting to sign credit card receipts. However, in Minnesota, they can’t hold their employees financially responsible for the losses. Last month in Karl v. Uptown
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Last week, significant changes to Minnesota’s sick or injured childcare leave law took effect, expanding the protections for employees who need to care for sick or injured family members. Under the previous version of the law, workers could use their own personal sick leave to care for
Read more →50 years ago this week the Equal Pay Act was signed into law. The purpose of the Equal Pay Act is to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers to employees. Under the Equal Pay Act, all employers must pay equal
Read more →Only 4 states in the nation have a minimum wage requirement lower than the federal minimum wage – one of them being Minnesota. But that might not be true for long. Two bills have been proposed this month to raise the minimum wage in Minnesota to exceed
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