About

Who publishes this

Minnesota Employment Guide is published by Madgett Law, LLC, a Minnesota law firm. David J.S. Madgett, Minnesota Bar No. 390494, is the attorney responsible for its content. The firm represents employees in Minnesota employment matters, and you should read everything here knowing that.

We say that plainly and at the top because the alternative — a consumer education site that turns out to be marketing for a law firm you find out about later — is exactly the pattern this site was built to be the opposite of.

Reading this site does not make you a client and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Nothing here is advice about your situation. Under the rules that govern Minnesota lawyers, this site is attorney advertising, and it says so on every page.

Why it exists

Almost everything a Minnesota employee reads about their rights was written by someone with an interest in what they do next. An employer's handbook and separation letter are written to make the exit quiet. An advertisement is written to make the phone ring. Both overstate, in opposite directions: the first says at-will employment settles everything, and the second says an unfair firing is a case. Neither is what the statute says.

The honest picture is narrower and more useful. Minnesota law gives employees a specific set of rights — some of them stronger than the federal versions, several of them recent, and a few of them with deadlines short enough that the decision to wait is itself a decision. It also declines to give them a great deal that they are told they have. The difference between those two lists is knowable in advance, from the statute, and this site exists so that someone can work out which list their situation is on before they act on either kind of advice.

What this site does not do

• It does not sell anything — no forms, no templates, no letters, no "kits."
• It does not take a fee, commission, or referral payment from anyone.
• It does not collect your information. There are no forms, no accounts, no newsletter signup, no analytics, and no third-party scripts of any kind.
• It does not evaluate your case, because it cannot know your facts — and because the wrong information sent to the wrong lawyer at the wrong time can create a conflict rather than a representation.
• It does not publish case results or settlement figures.

Minnesota first

Employment law is mostly state law, and Minnesota's is more protective than the federal floor in a number of specific places — the Human Rights Act reaches employers the federal statutes do not, the Whistleblower Act protects an employee who reports a violation of any law to their own employer, whatever the industry and however small the company, and the noncompete rule since 2023 has no counterpart in federal law now in force. Rather than write general national content that is vague enough to be true everywhere, this site covers Minnesota specifically, and says so wherever federal law is what actually governs.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, it should be fixed. Statutes change and articles go stale. Write to Madgett Law, LLC and the page will be corrected or, if it is right, the source will be shown.