In late 2024, Gislason & Hunter attorney Adam N. Froehlich was sworn in to the bar of the State of North Dakota before Blue Earth County, Minnesota judge Hon. Mark E. Betters and subsequently admitted to practice law in the state of North Dakota.  Froehlich is currently the only Gislason & Hunter attorney licensed in North...

On July 1, 2024, the new Minnesota right to repair law took effect, resulting in a major shift in what information and materials product manufacturers must be ready to provide buyers and repair businesses. This new act, titled The Digital Fair Repair Act[1], is intended to provide buyers with the ability to conveniently repair the...

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Gislason & Hunter LLP welcomes three new attorneys to their firm. Matthew Q. Hebl, Christopher G. Jenkins, and Devin R. Miller. Hebl and Miller will practice out of the Mankato, MN office and Jenkins will practice out of the New Ulm, MN office. Hebl will focus on the areas of business and corporate law, finance...

Immediate Action Items for Employers: Recalculate “base rate” for any employee paid on anything other than a standard wage. If you presently scrutinize employees’ requests for ESST, consider approving it as a matter of course. Aling use of ESST to the increments in which you pay. Ensure your paystub includes the necessary information. Make a plan to keep pay and ESST information for 3 years. If you are offering paid leave above the ESST minimums, ensure that you are offering it on the same terms as ESST; or consider ceasing to offer excess.

Minnesota is taking a strong approach to combating the ongoing misclassification of workers as independent contractors, rather than true employees. New legislation took effect on July 1, 2024, in the form of amended Minn. Stat. § 181.722, which (1) prohibits misclassification of workers; (2) identifies clear tests for classifying workers; and (3) imposes strict and...

Last year, Minnesota legalized the recreational use of cannabis for adults over the age of twenty-one. In a prior eLaw article, I wrote about the tension between the Lawful Consumable Products Act’s (“LCPA”) prohibition on adverse employment action arising from an employee’s off-duty, off-premises use of cannabis and the sensitivity of available cannabis tests without...