1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to employment; amending the Minnesota Labor Relations Act;amending 
1.3 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 181.87, by adding a subdivision.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 181.87, is amended by adding a 
1.6 	subdivision to read:
1.7 		Subd. 3a.Employer responsibility. Upon an injury to, illness of, or death of a 
1.8 	migrant worker arising out of and in the course of employment, the employer shall 
1.9 	provide transportation to the injured, ill, or deceased individual from the place of work 
1.10 	to the location at which the employee was recruited to travel to Minnesota to perform 
1.11 	labor covered under sections 181.85 to 181.91. The employer shall pay an injured, ill, or 
1.12 	deceased individual at the individual's usual rate of pay during the time period between 
1.13 	when the individual was injured, became ill, or died and when the employer returned the 
1.14 	individual to the location at which the employee was recruited to travel to Minnesota to 
1.15 	perform labor covered under sections 181.85 to 181.91.

1.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.