by ssmnlaw | Feb 6, 2023 | Business Law, Employment Law
Minnesota is not exempt from the growing movement to limit the use of non-compete provisions in employment agreements. Other states have already severely limited the use of such non-competes and the Federal Trade Commission proposed such a rule on January 5, 2023. ...
by ssmnlaw | Jun 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
This spring (2022), Minnesota established a new program that will provide certain eligible COVID-19 frontline workers with a bonus payment issued by the State. This includes employees of several types of private sector businesses. This means that employers...
by ssmnlaw | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
The following article was recently published by JD Supra here. In 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) collected a whopping $234 million in back wages for nearly 200,000 employees who the DOL determined were not paid in accordance with the Fair Labor...
by ssmnlaw | Jan 31, 2022 | Business Law
The below is re-posted from a JD Supra article. The traditional office environment is transforming. While necessity led to office employees performing their work remotely during the pandemic, long-standing perceptions of working in a traditional office setting have...
by ssmnlaw | Nov 4, 2020 | Entrepreneurship
We’re excited to share that our community neighbor, Wayzata Community Church, has recently announced a social entrepreneurship initiative “created to help people and ideas rise” called DOUGH. As Wayzata Community Church describes it “Dough is real money. For...
