MN SF4018

Establishes a three-part test to determine employee status under Minnesota employment law, requiring hiring entities to prove all conditions are met to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees.

Individual must be free from control and direction of the hiring entity both contractually and in practice in order to qualify as independent contractor.

Work performed must be outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business and the individual must be customarily engaged in an independently established trade or business of the same nature.

Applies to Minnesota Statutes chapters 176, 177, 181A, 182, and 268 governing employment and labor matters.

Preserves existing exceptions to employee and independent contractor definitions that are expressly stated in affected statutes.