2005 Minnesota Statutes

     181A.12 Penalties. 

    Subdivision 1.    Fines; penalty.  Any employer who 
 hinders or delays the department or its authorized 
 representative in the performance of its duties under sections 
 181A.01 to 181A.12 or refuses to admit the commissioner or an 
 authorized representative to any place of employment or refuses 
 to make certificates or lists available as required by sections 
 181A.01 to 181A.12, or otherwise violates any provisions of 
 sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 or any rules issued pursuant thereto 
 shall be assessed a fine to be paid to the commissioner for 
 deposit in the general fund.  The fine may be recovered in a 
 civil action in the name of the department brought in the 
 district court of the county where the violation is alleged to 
 have occurred or the district court where the commissioner has 
 an office.  Fines are in the amounts as follows: 

      (a) employment of minors under the age of 14           
          (each employee)                                 $  500 
      (b) employment of minors under the age of 16
          during school hours while school is in session       
          (each employee)                                    500 
      (c) employment of minors under the age of 16 
          before 7:00 a.m. (each employee)                   500 

      (d) employment of minors under the age of 16 
          after 9:00 p.m. (each employee)                    500
      (e) employment of a high school student under 
          the age of 18 in violation of section 181A.04,
          subdivision 6 (each employee)                    1,000
      (f) employment of minors under the age of 16 
          over eight hours a day (each employee)             500
      (g) employment of minors under the age of 16 
          over 40 hours a week (each employee)               500
      (h) employment of minors under the age of 18 
          in occupations hazardous or
          detrimental to their well-being as defined  
          by rule (each employee)                          1,000
      (i) employment of minors under the age of 16 
          in occupations hazardous or
          detrimental to their well-being as defined 
          by rule (each employee)                          1,000

      (j) minors under the age of 18 injured in 
          hazardous employment (each employee)             5,000
      (k) minors employed without proof of age 
          (each employee)                                    250

    An employer who refuses to make certificates or lists 
 available as required by sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 shall be 
 assessed a $500 fine. 

    Subd. 2.    Misdemeanor.  An employer or other person 
 violating any provision of sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 excluding 
 section 181A.04, subdivision 6, or any rules issued pursuant 
 thereto or assisting another in such violation is guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 

    Subd. 3.    Gross misdemeanor.  An employer who engages 
 in repeated violations of sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 excluding 
 section 181A.04, subdivision 6, is also guilty of a gross 
 misdemeanor.  An employer who engages in a single violation of 
 sections 181A.01 to 181A.12 excluding section 181A.04, 
 subdivision 6, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor if the violation 
 results in the death of the minor or substantial bodily harm to 
 the minor.  For purposes of this subdivision, "substantial 
 bodily harm" has the meaning given in section 609.02, 
 subdivision 7a. 

    HIST: 1974 c 432 s 12; 1983 c 301 s 154; 1984 c 608 s 2; 1985 
 c 248 s 70; 1Sp1985 c 13 s 295; 1986 c 444; 1993 c 261 s 2; 2000 
 c 488 art 2 s 10