Hennepin County does not have a hotel worker retention ordinance, leaving job protections during ownership changes governed by collective bargaining and federal WARN Act notice requirements.
Unlike Los Angeles and several California cities, Hennepin County and its municipalities, including Minneapolis and Bloomington, have not enacted hotel worker retention ordinances requiring new owners to keep existing staff for a transition period. Job protection during hotel sales or rebrandings is largely a matter of collective bargaining, primarily through UNITE HERE Local 17, which represents many downtown Minneapolis hotel workers. The federal WARN Act requires 60 days notice for plant closings of 100 or more employees. Minnesota offers state Dislocated Worker Program services. There are no city-level recall lists.
Because no local retention ordinance applies, violations of worker recall rules would only arise under union contracts or federal WARN Act notice requirements.
See how Hennepin County's hotel worker retention rules stack up against other locations.
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