Bill > HF4110

This bill adjusts existing Minnesota employment laws regarding rest and meal breaks by creating specific exemptions under certain circumstances. For rest breaks, the bill adds a provision stating that the standard rest break requirements do not apply when an employee is the sole worker at a location providing life-sustaining services, working with a vulnerable adult (defined as someone at risk of harm due to age or disability), or during an emergency response; however, even in these exempted situations, employees must still be allowed to use the restroom. Similarly, for meal breaks, the bill exempts employees from the usual meal break rules in the same three scenarios: when they are the only employee providing life-sustaining services, working with a vulnerable adult, or during an emergency response, with the crucial caveat that employees in these situations must still be permitted time to eat a meal while working.

Labor and Employment

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4110/