It is in the public interest that public buildings and other public works be constructed and maintained by the best means and highest quality of labor reasonably available and that persons working on public works be compensated according to the real value of the services they perform. It is therefore the policy of this state that wages of laborers, workers, and mechanics on projects financed in whole or part by state funds should be comparable to wages paid for similar work in the community as a whole.
Minn. Stat. § 177.41
STATE PROJECTS AND STATE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY.
Known as the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act
The act spans §§ 177–177 (24 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case State Building & Construction Trades Council v. City of Vista (2012)
Most recently applied in J.D. Donovan, Inc. v. Minnesota Department of Transportation (April 2016)
1973 c 724 s 1; 1975 c 191 s 1; 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.