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MN PAID LEAVE...

Minnesota passed MN Paid Leave in 2023, and it is a state-run insurance program that provides up to 20 weeks of paid leave per year for qualifying family or medical reasons...

Eligibility: Who Qualifies?

Covered Employers, All private and public employers are covered and must participate in MN Paid Leave (except the federal government).

Covered Employees, To qualify for MN Paid Leave, employees must meet all of the following:

Earn at least 5.3% of the statewide average annual wage in the past year (about $3,700 in 2024); and
2(a) Worked at least 50% of their time in MN in a calendar year; or

2(b) If an employee (i) does not work at least 50% of their time in MN or in any other state, and (ii) the employee performs some work in MN and (iii) lives in MN for at least 50% of the calendar year.

Eligible employees includes full-time, part-time, temporary, and most seasonal employees.

Seasonal employees who work less than 150 days during any consecutive 52-week period in hospitality are generally not eligible to MN Paid Leave benefits.

Remote Employees Count Too: Even if your company is based out of state, if you have just one employee working remotely in Minnesota that satisfies the State’s eligibility requirements, then your business must participate in MN Paid Leave.

What Leave is Covered?

There are two main types of leave under MN Paid Leave:

Medical Leave (up to 12 weeks): For the employee’s own serious health condition
Family Leave (up to 12 weeks): For bonding time with a new child, caring for a family member with a serious condition, addressing a military exigency, or taking safe leave.
Combined Cap: An employee may take up to 20 total weeks of paid leave per benefit year.

Intermittent Leave: Leave can be taken in small blocks (e.g., a few hours or days at a time), with a cap of 480 hours per year for intermittent use...

https://wfjlawfirm.com/mn-paid-leave-wh ... fore-2026/

The state has received 12,000 applications already to which you qualify even if you had a baby in March of 2024...

and the czars running it feel, "there are enough layers of checks and balances to eliminate fraud..."



as tampon will tell you...