How we verify the law

The process

1. Retrieve the source first. The statute is pulled from the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes, or the opinion from the court that issued it, before the sentence that relies on it is written.
2. Quote it verbatim. Statutory language appears in a block quote, so you can always tell our words from the legislature's.
3. Verify independently. A second pass re-retrieves every citation and confirms three separate things: that the authority exists, that it says what it is cited for, and that any quotation matches the source word for word. Getting the first two right and the third wrong is the failure mode that matters most.
4. Link and date it. Each guide lists its sources and the date they were last checked. If that date is old, treat the guide as old.

Why this is not standard

Because employment content goes stale quickly and quietly. Minnesota's legislature has amended the employment chapters in nearly every recent session, and nothing on an old page changes when it does — the article just becomes wrong while continuing to look authoritative. A page describing a noncompete as enforceable, a break rule by its old numbers, or a filing window that has since moved is not being dishonest; it is old. No page announces that.

The second reason is specific to this subject. Employment articles are usually written by someone marketing to the reader, and the marketing pushes the description of the law toward whatever makes the reader act. The only reliable corrective is the statute itself, quoted, linked, and dated.

What verification is not

Confirming that a statute says what we say it says is not the same as knowing whether it applies to you. It usually turns on facts — what was said, what was written down, when, how many employees your employer has, what you signed — that this site has no way to know. Accurate general law and advice about your situation are different things, and only the first one is here.