Employers with St. Paul, Minnesota employees:

The St. Paul Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity (which enforces the St. Paul Earned Sick and Safe Time Ordinance (the “Ordinance”)) recently released a guidance addressing various nuances of the Ordinance, including:

  • whether time spent traveling by employees counts as time worked for purposes of accruing earned sick and safe time (“ESST”)
  • proper procedures for frontloading ESST
  • what requirements must be met for an existing PTO policy to satisfy the Ordinance’s requirements; and
  • the circumstances under which an employer can ask for documentation to verify an employee’s request to use ESST

Businesses with employees in St. Paul should review the guidance carefully to make sure their paid sick/safe leave and/or PTO policies comply with the guidance, as well as Minnesota’s statewide paid sick leave law.

A link to the guidance can be found here: Final ESST Rules With Citation 1-8-24.pdf