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Wyoming adopts Minnesota Paid Leave and updates personnel policy
Summary
The council adopted Minnesota’s new paid-leave program into the city’s personnel policy, choosing to continue with the ShelterPoint provider and noting a payroll contribution of 0.86% to fund benefits; staff provided details on benefit banks (medical and family) and procedural requirements.
The Wyoming City Council voted to adopt the Minnesota Paid Leave (MPL) program into the city’s personnel policy to comply with state statute. Staff explained MPL provides up to 20 weeks of paid leave in a benefit year, split across a medical bank (up to 12 weeks) and a family-leave bank (up to 12 weeks) with a combined annual cap of 20 weeks.
City staff said municipalities could adopt the state provider or pursue a local alternative; Wyoming elected to remain with its benefits vendor, ShelterPoint, which staff said was slightly more favorable for employees. The funding mechanism discussed is a payroll contribution of 0.86% from wages. During Q&A, council members asked about notice and documentation requirements (staff said 30 days’ notice if the leave is foreseeable and that the provider requires documentation for some absences) and about the approximate cost impact; staff gave differing monthly estimates in discussion (variously described as about $11 and about $22 per employee), and the transcript did not provide an exact per-employee amount.
A motion to adopt the Minnesota paid-leave policy and update the city personnel policy was moved and seconded; the council approved the change by voice vote.
Staff also noted other personnel-policy updates required by recent Minnesota statutory changes (earn sick and safe time and employee breaks) were included in the revised personnel policy packet.
