List of essential employees expanded.

HF 2807 expands Minnesota's definition of "essential employees" to include medical examiners, coroners, medical death technicians, medical death investigators, correctional facility guards, confidential employees, supervisory staff, assistant county/city attorneys, principals, and assistant principals. The bill adds these roles to the existing list, which previously covered firefighters, police dispatchers, and health care workers. It clarifies that for state employees, all law enforcement, public safety, health care, correctional guards, and supervisory unit employees are considered essential, regardless of severance status. For University of Minnesota employees, nursing professionals and supervisory staff in specific units are now classified as essential. This change directly affects these expanded categories of public sector workers in their eligibility for related labor protections under current law.