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Also called: employer under the MHRA; Minn. Stat. § 363A.03 employer.
“Employer” means a person who has one or more employees.
Minn. Stat. § 363A.03, subd. 16. Ten words, and they do most of the work: a two-person business is an employer under the Act. One duty inside the same chapter is limited by headcount and it is worth keeping separate — Minn. Stat. § 363A.08, subd. 6(a), applies the reasonable-accommodation requirement only to an employer with employees “for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year equal to or greater than 25 effective July 1, 1992, and equal to or greater than 15 effective July 1, 1994.” That threshold sits in subdivision 6 alone.
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Sources checked September 8, 2026. Citations independently verified against the primary source September 8, 2026.