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Minnesota law requires employers with 21 or more employees at one or more sites to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee for health conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth unless the employer demonstrates that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer’s business. Any employee...

Minnesota Adds “Familial Status” as a Protected Class

15 Aug 2016

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Attorneys, Employment Law, Family, Minnesota, Will S. Partridge

Employers in Minnesota need to revise their non-discrimination and equal opportunity policies to include familial status as a protected class. Under Minnesota law, familial status is defined as “the condition or one or more minors being domiciled with (1) their parent or parents or the minor’s legal guardian or (2)...

Changes to Medical Assistance Recovery

01 Aug 2016

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Attorneys, Estate Planning, In the News, Minnesota, Steven H. Fink

In 1967, Minnesota instituted a medical assistance (MA) estate recovery program. The program authorized counties to recover the cost paid for MA services received by a deceased person. In June of 2016, new legislation was passed which limits the number of MA services that can be recovered by the counties....

Farrish Johnson Attorney Featured on KEYC

22 Jul 2016

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Attorneys, In the News, Joseph A. Gangi, Minnesota, Wrongful Conviction

Farrish Johnson attorney Joseph A. Gangi worked with a woman wrongfully convicted of manslaughter to seek compensation after spending nearly three years behind bars. This web page contains general information and not legal advice. It is based on Minnesota law in effect at the time of writing. An attorney...

Minnesota Wrongful Conviction Statute Declared Unconstitutional

20 Jul 2016

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Attorneys, In the News, Joseph A. Gangi, Minnesota, Minnesota Court of Appeals, Wrongful Conviction

A wrongfully-convicted Minnesota woman is able to seek compensation for the time she spent behind bars – nearly three years – thanks to Attorney Joseph A. Gangi of Farrish Johnson Law Office. A new Minnesota law provides compensation to Minnesotans who were wrongly convicted of a crime and had to...

Wage Disclosure Protection Law –State and Federal Law Changes.

18 Jul 2016

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Attorneys, Employment Law, Minnesota, Staff News, Will S. Partridge

Every Minnesota employer must comply with the Wage Disclosure Protection law. Under this law, no employer can prohibit employees from disclosing or discussing their own wages. Employers that provide an employee handbook to their employees must include in the handbook a notice of employee rights and remedies under the Wage...

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