Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                         CHAPTER 38-H.F.No. 134 
           An act relating to employment; requiring an employer 
          to notify employees and job applicants of bankruptcy 
          proceedings; providing a penalty; proposing coding for 
          new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 181. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [181.93] [NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES AND APPLICANTS OF 
BANKRUPTCY.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [NOTICE.] An employer shall immediately 
notify all of its employees in writing that it has filed a 
petition for bankruptcy or has had an involuntary bankruptcy 
petition filed against it. 
    An employer shall, in writing, notify all persons offered 
jobs with the employer that it has filed a petition for 
bankruptcy or has had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed 
against it.  The notice shall be given at the time of the job 
offer and is required if the case initiated by the petition has 
not been closed. 
    For purposes of this subdivision, an employer includes a 
"debtor in possession" and excludes a bankruptcy "trustee" as 
those terms are used under federal bankruptcy law. 
    Subd. 2.  [VIOLATION.] A violation of subdivision 1 is a 
misdemeanor. 
    Approved April 20, 1987