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Also called: employer under the Whistleblower Act; Minn. Stat. § 181.931 employer.
“Employer” means any person having one or more employees in Minnesota and includes the state and any political subdivision of the state.
Minn. Stat. § 181.931, subd. 3. One employee is the threshold, and public employers are inside it by name. There is no headcount floor of the kind that appears elsewhere in Minnesota employment law — compare Minn. Stat. § 363A.08, subd. 6(a), which limits the Human Rights Act’s reasonable-accommodation duty by number of employees. Subdivision 1 confines this definition to sections 181.931 to 181.935.
Where this comes up
- Minnesota's Whistleblower Act Protects a Report of a Legal Violation — Not Every Complaint About a Boss
- Was My Firing Illegal? Minnesota's Honest Answer Is Usually No, and the Exceptions Are a Short, Specific List
- Minnesota Gives You Fifteen Working Days to Demand the Reason You Were Fired — and the Duty Never Arises Unless You Ask in Writing
Sources checked September 8, 2026. Citations independently verified against the primary source September 8, 2026.