The purpose of the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act is (1) to establish minimum wage and overtime compensation standards that maintain workers' health, efficiency, and general well-being; (2) to safeguard existing minimum wage and overtime compensation standards that maintain workers' health, efficiency, and general well-being against the unfair competition of wage and hour standards that do not; and (3) to sustain purchasing power and increase employment opportunities.
Minn. Stat. § 177.22
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
Known as the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act
The act spans §§ 177–177 (24 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Milner v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (2008)
Most recently applied in Graco, Inc. v. City of Minneapolis (March 2019)
1973 c 721 s 2; 1984 c 628 art 4 s 1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.