Every business with employees is required to have certain employment posters available for employees. There are services that will sell you the posters (all in one, laminated), but they are also available for free. We’ll get back to the fee based posters in a bit.
To get the required posters for free: Follow the links below, print out the result, put the posters up where employees will see them and your compliance cost will just be the price of the paper and ink. Lamination is not required.
Here are the posters you need to post if you are an employer in Minnesota:
Minnesota Posters State website.
This allows you to print all state required posters, or gives you a phone number to call and order them.)
Federal Posters Website:
You can just print out all the ones listed there or run through this tool to figure out which ones apply to you. (The results of the tool are a little confusing, since they list both the applicable laws as well as the posters – so read carefully).
There are several reputable companies that sell the laminated posters. However, we were recently barraged with robocalls from a company called “Minnesota Labor Law Poster Service”. Apparently, these guys operate in multiple states under similar names. Their call threatened dire consequences to our business unless we bought posters from them. OSHA has been very frustrated by these businesses practices, issuing a press release about them a few years ago.
We suggest that if you get this kind of call, keep pressing the star button (*) until you reach an operator and request to be added to their “Do Not Call” list.