The Minnesota Court of Appeals has delivered a mixed decision in a case involving allegations of unpaid overtime pay for former security workers at downtown St. Paul’s largest office buildings, remanding part of the case back to district court.
In 2019, three security guards who had previously worked for Madison Equities alerted the Minnesota Attorney General’s office that they were not being paid time-and-a-half overtime rates for extra hours. Instead, they said they’d been asked to punch in and out as they circulated from building to building, as if each structure were a separate company, even when logging 16-hour days.
The company’s holdings at the time included some 18 downtown buildings, including the First National Bank Building, the Lowry Building, the U.S. Bank Center, the Alliance Center, Park Square Court and the Stadium Offices and Ramp.
Concerns about unpaid overtime drew an investigation from the attorney general’s office and then a lawsuit against Madison Equities, filed in Ramsey County District Court in 2023, several years after at least six former security guards shared their stories with the office. The district court blocked the attorney general’s suit from moving forward, saying the statute of limitations had passed for legal action around wage-hour violations under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act.
The attorney general’s office appealed, saying that the most applicable provision under state law was a six-year statute of limitation, and not the...
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