1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to employment; requiring reporting under the
1.3 	state dislocated worker program and the unemployment
1.4 	insurance program about termination and outsourcing of
1.5 	employment; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections
1.6 	116L.17, subdivision 2; 268.044, subdivision 1.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 116L.17,
1.9 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.Grants.  The board shall make grants to
1.11 	workforce service areas or other eligible organizations to
1.12 	provide services to dislocated workers as follows:
1.13 	(a) The board shall allocate funds available for the
1.14 	purposes of this section in its discretion to respond to
1.15 	substantial layoffs and plant closings.
1.16 	(b) The board shall regularly allocate funds to provide
1.17 	services to individual dislocated workers or small groups.  The
1.18 	initial allocation for this purpose must be 50 percent of the
1.19 	deposits and transfers into the workforce development fund, less
1.20 	any collection costs paid out of the fund and any amounts
1.21 	appropriated by the legislature from the workforce development
1.22 	fund for programs other than the state dislocated worker program.
1.23 	(c) Following the initial allocation, the board may
1.24 	consider additional allocations to provide services to
1.25 	individual dislocated workers.  The board's decision to allocate
1.26 	additional funds shall be based on relevant economic indicators
2.1 	including:  the number of substantial layoffs to date, notices
2.2 	of substantial layoffs for the remainder of the fiscal year,
2.3 	evidence of declining industries, the number of permanently
2.4 	separated individuals applying for unemployment benefits by
2.5 	workforce service area, and the number of individuals exhausting
2.6 	unemployment benefits by workforce service area.  The board must
2.7 	also consider expenditures of allocations to workforce service
2.8 	areas under paragraph (b) made during the first two quarters of
2.9 	the fiscal year and federal resources that have been or are
2.10 	likely to be allocated to Minnesota for the purposes of serving
2.11 	dislocated workers affected by substantial layoffs or plant
2.12 	closings.
2.13 	(d) The board may, in its discretion, allocate funds
2.14 	carried forward from previous years under subdivision 9 for
2.15 	large, small, or individual layoffs.
2.16 	(e) Each workforce service area or other eligible
2.17 	organization receiving a grant from the board shall prepare and
2.18 	submit an annual report to the board by February 15 of each
2.19 	year, beginning in 2007.  The report shall state whether each
2.20 	dislocated worker receiving services pursuant to a grant from
2.21 	the board during the previous calendar year was dislocated
2.22 	either because the worker's former employer outsourced the
2.23 	worker's former job to employees located outside the state of
2.24 	Minnesota or because the worker's former employer lost a
2.25 	contract or business due to outsourcing.  For any dislocated
2.26 	worker whose dislocation was caused by outsourcing of the
2.27 	worker's former job, the report shall indicate to where the
2.28 	employment has been outsourced.

2.29 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 268.044,
2.30 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.31 		Subdivision 1.Wage detail report.  (a) Each employer
2.32 	that has employees in covered employment shall submit a
2.33 	quarterly wage and employment detail report by electronic
2.34 	transmission, in a format prescribed by the commissioner.  The
2.35 	report shall include for each employee in covered employment,
2.36 	the employee's name, Social Security number, the total wages
3.1 	paid to the employee, and total number of paid hours worked.
3.2 	For employees exempt from the definition of employee in section
3.3 	177.23, subdivision 7, clause (6), the employer shall report 40
3.4 	hours worked for each week any duties were performed by a
3.5 	full-time employee and shall report a reasonable estimate of the
3.6 	hours worked for each week duties were performed by a part-time
3.7 	employee.  In addition, the wage and employment detail report
3.8 	shall include the number of employees employed on the 12th day
3.9 	of each calendar month and, if required by the commissioner, the
3.10 	report shall be broken down by business location and type of
3.11 	employment. Beginning in 2007, the wage and employment detail
3.12 	report shall also include the number of employees who have left
3.13 	employment with the employer during the calendar quarter.  If
3.14 	employees have left employment with the employer during the
3.15 	calendar quarter, the report shall specify the number of jobs
3.16 	that have been or will be outsourced to employees outside the
3.17 	state of Minnesota and the locations to which the jobs have been
3.18 	or will be outsourced.If the information required is not
3.19 	submitted in a manner and format prescribed by the commissioner,
3.20 	it shall not be considered a wage and employment detail report.
3.21 	The report is due and must be received by the commissioner on or
3.22 	before the last day of the month following the end of the
3.23 	calendar quarter.  The commissioner may delay the due date on a
3.24 	specific calendar quarter in the event the department is unable
3.25 	to accept wage and employment detail reports electronically.
3.26 	(b) The employer may report the wages paid to the next
3.27 	lower whole dollar amount.
3.28 	(c) An employer need not include the name of the employee
3.29 	or other required information on the wage and employment detail
3.30 	report if disclosure is specifically exempted from being
3.31 	reported by federal law.
3.32 	(d) A wage and employment detail report must be submitted
3.33 	for each calendar quarter even though no wages were paid, unless
3.34 	the employer has notified the commissioner, under section
3.35 	268.042, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), of termination of
3.36 	business.

4.1 	Sec. 3. REVISOR'S INSTRUCTION.
 4.2 	The revisor of statutes shall change the phrase "wage
4.3 	detail report" or similar phrases to "wage and employment detail
4.4 	report" or similar phrases wherever they appear in Minnesota
4.5 	Statutes and Minnesota Rules when referring to those reports
4.6 	required under Minnesota Statutes, section 268.044.  The revisor
4.7 	shall also make grammatical changes related to the changes in
4.8 	terms.