8th Cir. Axes Bid to Block Minnesota Construction Worker Law (1)

A construction company and two industry groups failed to persuade a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s stricter new law on worker misclassification.

The Minnesota Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors and others didn’t adequately show the law is unconstitutional on account of vagueness or excessive fines, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found. The ruling affirms one by a lower court that declined in March to block state officials from enforcing the law passed in 2024.

Classification of construction workers has been a long-disputed area of employment law, with a handful of ...