What You Need To Know:

• On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, the Minnesota legislature passed a statewide paid sick and safe time mandate, known as Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST), as part of a larger jobs and labor package. The bill will become law once signed by Gov. Tim Walz, which is expected.
• Once signed into law, the Minnesota ESST mandate will take effect on January 1, 2024.
• Minnesota statewide ESST will not preempt existing local paid sick and safe leave mandates currently in effect in Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, nor the Bloomington mandate scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2023.
• Employers in Minnesota will be required to provide eligible Minnesota employees with 1 hour of paid ESST for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 48 hours per year and an overall balance of 80 hours. The mandate does not appear to impose a specific cap on the amount of available ESST employees can use in a benefit year.

With the state legislature's passage of the ESST mandate, Minnesota is poised to join 18 other states, plus Washington, D.C., as jurisdictions that have enacted a statewide paid sick leave or general paid time off mandate.¹ Like the new Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act that was enacted earlier in 2023, Minnesota ESST will go into effect on January 1, 2024 once signed into law. As noted above, local paid sick and safe leave mandates already exist in four Minnesota municipalities: Bloomington, Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. The Minnesota legislature is also...

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