Minnesota’s Earned Sick and Safe Time law requires employers to provide paid leave to employees. Minnesota Milk Producers Association Executive Director Lucas Sjostrom testified before the state legislature on behalf of S.F. 310, which would amend the 2024 ESST law to exempt agricultural businesses with five or fewer employees. “Over the past twelve months as farmers are dealing with this law farmers have talked about the cumbersome process and how this doesn’t work well for agriculture with seasonality and only hiring some workers for a season.” An exemption to the ESST law already exists and Sjostrom hopes it can be expanded to include broader operations. “There is already an exemption for sugarbeet farmers if they hire someone for, I believe less than about 21 days, and I think the same thing should happen for dairy farmers.”
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