Minnesota Minimum Wage Labor Law Poster

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The State of Minnesota has two minimum wage rates.

SMALL EMPLOYERS LARGE EMPLOYERS*
Jan. 1, 1998 $4.90 Sept. 1, 1997 $5.15

*Large Employer is defined as any enterprise whose annual gross volume of sales made or business done is not less than $500,000.
TRAINING WAGE
Sept. 1, 1997 $4.25
New employees under age of 20 during first consecutive 90 days of employment.
OVERTIME
Time and one-half the regular rate
STATE COVERED FEDERAL COVERED
EMPLOYERS EMPLOYERS
-After 48 hours -After 40 hours

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
An employer may not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate, or penalize an employee regarding the employee’s compensation, conditions, location, or privileges of employment because:

• The employee, in good faith, reports a violation or suspected violation of any state or federal law to an employer, or any government body, or law enforcement official.
• The employee is requested by a public body to participate in an investigation, hearing, or inquiry.
• The employee informs the employer that he/she is refusing an order to perform an activity that the employee knows violates any state or federal law.

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.

PARENTAL LEAVE
• Employers with 21 or more employees must allow employees to take up to 6 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 per year to attend school related activities or visit early childhood programs which their children attend.

THIS DOCUMENT CAN BE MADE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMATS, SUCH AS LARGE PRINT, BRAILLE OR AUDIOTAPE