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Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Update

December 31st, 2006 Posted by Mark

Minnesota officials make it pretty plain: All companies or organizations that have workers doing services for them in Minnesota will have to held to the Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law. No ifs, ands, or buts (at least not many of them).

That means if you have employees of any shape, size, or form in your offices, warehouses, or work sites in Minnesota, you ought to be registered with the Unemployment Insurance Employer Account system. The system runs through the Minnesota Department of Revenue, which withholds tax from employers, and through the Minnesota Secretary of State.

To register with this system, new employers in the state have to sign up with the Unemployment Insurance Employer Accounts Office. You have 10 days to do so from the first time that you pay wages to a worker in your company. However, new employers should not register before they pay these wages. In other words, the state of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance Employer Accounts Office is pretty strict with its 10 day window for your registration.

All of this registration for new employers can be done online at the Web site of the Unemployment Insurance Employer Accounts Office. Or you can register the old fashioned way, through the telephone. But again, the Unemployment Insurance Employer Accounts Office can be pretty strict here too—it requests that you only use the phone registration system if you do not have any access to the Internet.

Once you register, though, your job as a new employer in the state of Minnesota is over, right? Wrong. As with most states out there, Minnesota expects and hopes for certain things out of its employers when it comes to maintaining the unemployment insurance system. One of those things is complete record collection. That means keeping up to date and accurate personnel records, filing all exit interview forms, employee separation forms, and all other documents that keep track of your employees’ comings and goings.