Nothing on this page is advice about your job, and no article can be. If you want your own facts looked at, a Minnesota employment attorney can do that — and several of the deadlines described on this site are short enough that waiting is itself a decision.
Also called: working days; business day; business days.
Several Minnesota employment deadlines are counted in “working days,” and a search of the chapters that impose them turns up no definition of the phrase. The deadlines are real enough — 15 working days to request a termination reason and 10 for the employer to answer under Minn. Stat. § 181.933, subd. 1, and 7 or 14 working days for a personnel-record request under § 181.961, subd. 2(a). A full-text search of the Revisor’s official chapter files for chapter 181 and chapter 645 on September 8, 2026 returns 17 uses of the phrase in chapter 181, none in chapter 645, and no definition in either. Chapter 645 supplies only the end-of-period rule: under § 645.15, “[w]hen the last day of the period falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, that day shall be omitted from the computation.”
This site therefore counts a working day as Monday through Friday and excludes no holidays. That convention is deliberately conservative: a holiday inside a window can only push the true deadline later, so a date computed this way is the earliest the period could end, never the latest.
Where this comes up
- Minnesota Gives You Fifteen Working Days to Demand the Reason You Were Fired — and the Duty Never Arises Unless You Ask in Writing
- Your Minnesota Employer Has Seven Working Days to Hand You Your Personnel File, Free
- Every Minnesota Employment Deadline in One Table — and Not One of Them Is the Same Number
Sources checked September 8, 2026. Citations independently verified against the primary source September 8, 2026.