When will new policies impact your business?

ALREADY IN EFFECT

• Hair texture and styles added to the definition of race
• Ban on restrictive franchise agreements (“no-poach” or “nonsolicitation” agreements)
• State Building Code process/rules change to require adult-size changing facilities
• Cumulative impact reporting on state air permits
• Odor management oversight
• Air toxics reporting criteria to obtain a permit
• Additional public meetings for nonexpiring air permits
• Noncompete agreements banned
• Lactating employees, pregnancy accommodations, unpaid leave updates and small business exemptions removed
• Human Rights Act updated with new definitions of sexual orientation and gender identity
• New and increased OSHA penalties, classification of citation data; authority to inspect employer exclusion
• Gratuities on credit card changes
• New ergonomics reporting requirements
• New agriculture and food processing worker standards
• Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board established to set new employment standards
• Motor vehicle sales tax increases
• Restrictions on employer-sponsored meetings and communications
• New standards for warehouse distribution centers
• Stricter construction worker wage protections
• Fees increase for groundwater appropriation permits
• Recreational marijuana legal
• Sick and safe time mandated
• New ergonomics standards in effect for warehouse, meatpacking, health care workers
• New safety standards for meatpacking
• New worker standards for meat and poultry processing
• Ban established on asking about pay history
• Tab fee increases
• Compliance protocols for air emission permits
• 1% metro area sales tax for transit and housing
• New 50 cent per-delivery fee on retail deliveries over $100
• Restrictive employment covenants in service contracts prohibited
• Worker misclassification prohibited
• Minnesota OSHA fines/penalties indexed to inflation
• First Quarterly Wage Reports Due for Paid Family and Medical Leave mandate
• PFAS ban on 11 products begins
• Increases to the minimum wage
• Salary range in job postings disclosure required
• New health care mandates
• Gas tax indexed to inflation
• New pricing disclosure requirements
• Sick and Safe Time mandate applies to more generous PTO
• Changes to building construction or improvement services independent contractor test
• Minnesota Secure Choice Plan – retirement savings program launched
• Sick and Safe Time “administrative” modifications to notice, documentation provisions
• Ban on many fluorescent light bulbs.