Minnesota Clarifies Anti-Retaliation Provision in Ban on Pay Secrecy Policies

Before July 1, 2023

Effective July 1, 2023

Employers are prohibited from:

• Forbidding, as a condition of employment, employees from disclosing their own pay information.
• Requiring employees to waive their right to disclose their own pay information.
• Taking adverse action against an employee for disclosing their own pay information.

Employers are also prohibited from retaliating against an employee for asserting their rights or remedies under the law.

Employers are prohibited from:

• Forbidding, as a condition of employment, employees from disclosing their own pay information.
• Requiring employees to waive their right to disclose their own pay information.
• Taking adverse action against an employee for disclosing their own pay information.

Employers are also prohibited fromdischarging, disciplining, penalizing, interfering with, threatening, restraining, coercing, or otherwiseretaliatingor discriminatingagainst an employee for asserting their rights or remedies under the law.