HF 600

1st Unofficial Engrossment - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018)

Posted on 04/20/2017 02:39 p.m.

1.1A bill for an act 1.2relating to employment; providing uniformity for employment mandates on private 1.3employers;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 181. 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.5    Section 1. new text begin TITLE. new text end 1.6 new text begin This act shall be titled the "Uniform State Labor Standards Act." new text end 1.7    Sec. 2. new text begin [181.741] EXPRESS PREEMPTION; UNIFORMITY OF PRIVATE new text end 1.8 new text begin EMPLOYER MANDATES. new text end 1.9     new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end new text begin Definitions. new text end new text begin (a) For the purposes of this section, the terms defined in this new text end 1.10 new text begin subdivision have the meanings given them. new text end 1.11 new text begin (b) "Employer" means a private person employing one or more employees in the state. new text end 1.12 new text begin (c) "Local government" means a home rule charter city, statutory city, town, county, the new text end 1.13 new text begin Metropolitan Council, a metropolitan agency as defined in section 473.121, subdivision 5a, new text end 1.14 new text begin or a special district. new text end 1.15     new text begin Subd. 2. new text end new text begin Express preemption. new text end new text begin (a) A local government must not adopt, enforce, or new text end 1.16 new text begin administer an ordinance, local resolution, or local policy requiring an employer to pay an new text end 1.17 new text begin employee a wage higher than the applicable state minimum wage rate provided in section new text end 1.18 new text begin 177.24. new text end 1.19 new text begin (b) A local government must not adopt, enforce, or administer an ordinance, local new text end 1.20 new text begin resolution, or local policy requiring an employer to provide either paid or unpaid leave time. new text end 2.1 new text begin (c) A local government must not adopt, enforce, or administer an ordinance, local new text end 2.2 new text begin resolution, or local policy regulating the hours or scheduling of work time that an employer new text end 2.3 new text begin provides to an employee. This paragraph does not preempt an ordinance, local resolution, new text end 2.4 new text begin or local policy limiting the hours a business may operate. new text end 2.5 new text begin (d) A local government must not adopt, enforce, or administer an ordinance, local new text end 2.6 new text begin resolution, or local policy requiring an employer to provide an employee a particular benefit new text end 2.7 new text begin or term of employment. new text end 2.8     new text begin Subd. 3. new text end new text begin Local governments as employers and contractors. new text end new text begin This section does not new text end 2.9 new text begin regulate wages, benefits, terms of employment, or attendance policies: new text end 2.10 new text begin (1) provided to an employee of a local government; new text end 2.11 new text begin (2) agreed to in a contract for goods or services provided to a local government; or new text end 2.12 new text begin (3) agreed to in a contract for goods or services funded in whole or in part by financial new text end 2.13 new text begin assistance from a local government. new text end 2.14 new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end new text begin This section is effective upon final enactment and applies to new text end 2.15 new text begin ordinances, local policies, and local resolutions enacted on or after January 1, 2016. new text end