Age discrimination. Know your rights under Minnesota laws. refuse to hire or employ a person on the basis of age;

Transcription

1 Age discrimination Know your rights under Minnesota laws refuse to hire or employ a person on the basis of age; reue in grae or posion or emote a person on the basis of age; discharge or dismiss a person on the basis of age; or mandate rerement age if the employer has more than employees his poster contains only a summary of innesota la or more informaon contact the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry hone Minnesota Department of Human Rights hone dlilaborstandardsstatemnus dlimngo osng reuired by la in a locaon here employees can easily see this noce eptember

2 Minimum wage rates Any enterprise with annual gross revenues of $500,000 or more $9.65/hour Any enterprise with annual gross revenues of less than $500,000 May be paid to employees aged and the rst 0 consecuve days of employment /hour May be paid to employees aged 17 or younger May be paid to employees of hotels, motels, lodging establishments and resorts working under the authority of a summer work, travel Exchange Visitor (J) non-immigrant visa /hour Time-and-one-half the employee s regular rate of pay Aer hours Aer hours EMPLOYEE An employer may not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate or penalize an employee regarding the employee s compensaon, condions, locaon or privileges of employment because the employee reports a violaon of any law or refuses to parcipate in an acvity the employee knows is a violaon of law View complete wage rate informaon at wwwdlimngov/minage (51) dlilaborstandardsstatemnus wwwdlimngov osng reuired by law in a locaon where employees can easily see this noce October 2017

3 Safety and health protection on the job Employees The Minnesota Occupaonal afety and Health Act (the Act) reuires that your employer provide you with a workplace free of known hazards that can cause death, inury or illness ou also have the following workplace rights and responsibilies ou must follow all Minnesota OHA (MOHA) standards and your employer s safety rules our employer must provide you with informaon about any hazardous chemicals, harmful physical agents and infecous agents you are exposed to at work ou have the right to discuss your workplace safety and health concerns with your employer or with MOHA ou have the right to refuse to perform a ob duty if you believe the task or euipment will place you at immediate risk of death or serious physical inury However, you must do any other task your employer assigns you to do ou cannot simply leave the workplace ou have the right to be noed and comment if your employer reuests any variance from MOHA standard reuirements ou have the right to speak to a MOHA invesgator inspecng your workplace ou have the right to le a complaint with MOHA about safety and health hazards and reuest that an inspecon be conducted MOHA will not reveal your name to the employer ou have the right to see all citaons, penales and abatement dates issued to your employer by MOHA our employer cannot discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the Act However, your employer can discipline you for not following its safety and health rules If you feel your employer has discriminated against you for exercising your rights under the Act, you have 0 days to le a complaint with MOHA our employer must provide you with any exposure and medical records it has about you upon reuest ou have the right to parcipate in the development of standards by MOHA Employers ou must provide your employees with a safe and healthful work environment free from any known hazards that can cause death, inury or illness and comply with all applicable MOHA standards ou also have the following rights and responsibilies ou must post a copy of this poster and other MOHA documents where other noces to employees are posted ou must report to MNOSHA within eight hours all accidents resulng in the death of an employee ou must report to MNOSHA within 24 hours all accidents resulng in any amputaon, eye loss or inpaent hospitalizaon of any employee ou must allow MOHA invesgators to conduct inspecons, interview employees and review records ou must provide all necessary personal protecve euipment and training at your expense ou have the right to parcipate in the development of standards by MOHA Free safety and health assistance ree assistance to idenfy and correct hazards is available to employers, without citaon or penalty, through MOHA orkplace afety onsultaon at (51) 2-500, or oshaconsultaonstatemnus ontact MOHA for a copy of the Act, for specic safety and health standards or to le a complaint about workplace hazards Employers, employees and members of the general public who wish to le a complaint regarding the MOHA program may write to the federal OHA Region 5 oce at Department of Labor, Occupaonal afety and Health Administraon, hicago Regional Oce, 20 Dearborn treet, Room 2, hicago, IL 00 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY (51) oshacompliancestatemnus wwwdlimngov osng reuired by law in a locaon where employees can easily see this noce August 2017

4 UNEMPLOYED? Have you lost your job or had your work hours reduced? You have the right to apply for Unemployment Insurance benefits. Apply online at: or by telephone: (Twin Cities) or toll free (Greater Minnesota) TTY (for the deaf and hearing impaired) This information is available in an alternative format by calling DEED is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Provider. DEED / 15,000 / Sep 2015

5 Workers compensation Report any inury to your supervisor as soon as possible, no maer how minor it may appear ou may lose the right to workers compensaon benets if you do not make a mely report of the inury to your employer The me limit may be as short as 1 days rovide your employer with as much informaon as possible about your inury et any necessary medical treatment as soon as possible If you are not covered by a cered managed care organizaon (MO), you may treat with a doctor of your choice our employer must nofy you in wring if you are covered by a MO Medical care for your work inury, as long as it is reasonable and necessary age-loss benets for part of your lost income ompensaon for permanent damage to or loss of funcon of a body part What the insurer must do The insurer must invesgate your claim promptly If you have been disabled for more than three calendar-days, the insurer must begin payment of benets or send you a denial of liability within 1 days aer your employer knew you were o work or had lost wages because of your claimed inury The insurer will nofy you and must start paying wage-loss benets within the 1 days noted above The insurer must pay benets on me age-loss benets are paid at the same intervals as your work paychecks ooperate with all reuests for informaon concerning your claim The law allows the workers compensaon insurer to obtain medical informaon related to your work inury without your authorizaon, but they must send you wrien nocaon when they reuest the informaon The insurer cannot obtain other medical records unless you sign a wrien authorizaon et wrien conrmaon from your doctor about any authorizaon to be o work The note should be as specic as possible Vocaonal rehabilitaon services if you cannot return to your pre-inury ob or to your pre-inury employer due to your work inury enets to your spouse and/or dependents if you die as a result of a work inury The insurer will send noce to you within 1 days The noce must clearly explain the facts and reasons why they believe your inury or illness did not result from your work or why the claimed wage-loss benets are not related to your inury If you disagree with the denial, talk with the insurance claims aduster who is handling your claim If you are not sased and sll disagree with the denial, Fraud ollecng workers compensaon benets you are not entled to is the all to report workers compensaon fraud (51) dliworkcompstatemnus wwwdlimngov osng reuired by law in a locaon where employees can easily see this noce August 2017