2025 Session Last amended: 1923 session

§ 181.64 — False Statements as Inducement to Entering Employment

Plain-Language Summary

It is illegal for employers in Minnesota to use knowingly false statements to recruit workers, including lies about the type of work, pay, or working conditions. Employers must also disclose if there is an active strike or lockout at the workplace.

181.64 FALSE STATEMENTS AS INDUCEMENT TO ENTERING EMPLOYMENT.

It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, company, corporation, association, or organization of any kind, doing business in this state, directly or through any agent or attorney, to induce, influence, persuade, or engage any person to change from one place to another in this state, or to change from any place in any state, territory, or country to any place in this state, to work in any branch of labor through or by means of knowingly false representations, whether spoken, written, or advertised in printed form, concerning the kind or character of such work, the compensation therefor, the sanitary conditions relating to or surrounding it, or failure to state in any advertisement, proposal, or contract for the employment that there is a strike or lockout at the place of the proposed employment, when in fact such strike or lockout then actually exists in such employment at such place. Any such unlawful acts shall be deemed a false advertisement or misrepresentation for the purposes of this section and section 181.65.

History:

(10392) 1913 c 544 s 1; 1923 c 272 s 1

History: History: (10392) 1913 c 544 s 1; 1923 c 272 s 1

Practical Notes

When this applies: When an employer recruits workers to take a job in Minnesota or move within Minnesota for work. Who this affects: Job seekers and employers. Key points: Employers cannot lie about what the job involves, how much it pays, or what the working conditions are like. They also must tell you if workers at the job site are on strike or if there is a lockout. This applies to spoken, written, and advertised representations. Violations are considered false advertising under Minnesota law.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes