Alaska Labor Law Posters: State and Federal Requirements

Alaska employers must display about a dozen labor law posters covering wages, workplace safety, discrimination, workers’ compensation, unemployment, child labor, and several federal rights. The state posters come free from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and every required federal poster is free from the agency that issues it. One thing to flag up front: Alaska’s minimum wage rises from $13.00 to $14.00 per hour on July 1, 2026, so the wage and hour summary on your wall will need to be replaced mid-year.¹

Alaska State Posters You Must Display

Several notices come from the state and apply to essentially every Alaska employer. One of them you cannot download at all; it comes from your insurance carrier.

Summary of the Alaska Wage and Hour Act

AS 23.10.105 requires every covered employer to post a commissioner-approved summary of the Alaska Wage and Hour Act in a conspicuous place at each workplace.² The poster lays out the current minimum wage, overtime rules, and recordkeeping duties. Through June 30, 2026, the minimum wage is $13.00 per hour. It goes to $14.00 on July 1, 2026, and $15.00 on July 1, 2027, under the schedule set by 2024 Ballot Measure 1.³ Alaska does not allow a tip credit, so tipped workers earn the same base rate as anyone else.¹

Safety and Health Protection on the Job

The Alaska Occupational Safety and Health division (AKOSH) requires employers to display the “It’s Your Right to Know” poster, which tells workers they can report hazards, request inspections, and access injury logs. Retaliation against a worker who raises safety concerns is prohibited by AS 18.60.089, and an affected employee has 30 days to file a complaint with the commissioner.⁴ Failing to post the notice is itself a citable violation.

Emergency Information Poster

The AKOSH Emergency Information poster is a separate document that lists the phone numbers and procedures for reporting workplace fatalities and serious injuries. Download it from the Alaska Department of Labor’s poster page along with the safety notice.⁵

Workers’ Compensation Notice of Insurance

Under AS 23.30.060, every employer must post a notice identifying its workers’ compensation carrier, including the company name, address, and coverage period.⁶ The notice has to appear in three conspicuous places: the employer’s office, any mess hall or boarding house, and somewhere visible on the work premises. This is the one poster the state does not provide. Request it from your workers’ compensation insurance company.⁵

Unemployment Insurance Notice

The “Notice to Employees — Unemployment Insurance” poster explains how workers can file for benefits after losing a job. There is also a separate document, the “Required Notice to Separated Employees,” that must be handed directly to each worker at the time of separation. It is not a wall poster.⁵ Skipping the separation notice can delay a former employee’s benefit claim.

Summary of Alaska Child Labor Law

This poster outlines the work-hour limits and prohibited jobs for employees under 18, along with the written authorization required before a minor under 17 begins work. It is available for download from the Alaska Department of Labor and prints in landscape format on legal-size paper.⁵

Paid Sick Leave: A Written Notice, Not a Wall Poster

Ballot Measure 1 also created a paid sick leave requirement that began accruing on July 1, 2025. Employers with 15 or more employees must allow workers to accrue up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year; smaller employers must allow up to 40 hours.³ The law requires employers to give each employee written notice of their sick leave rights within 30 days of hire, or 30 days after the law took effect, whichever is later. That obligation is employee-specific rather than a posting requirement, but many employers add a sick leave summary to the poster board as a practical way to make the information available. Check the Alaska Department of Labor site for any official consolidated notice.

Federal Posters That Apply in Alaska

Federal posting rules apply alongside Alaska’s. Coverage depends on your size and industry, so not every federal poster is required for every employer.⁵

Fair Labor Standards Act

Every employer covered by the FLSA must display the federal minimum wage poster where employees can easily read it.⁷ The federal rate of $7.25 per hour sits well below Alaska’s, so the state minimum controls what you actually pay, but the federal poster still has to be up.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The EEOC’s “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster covers protections based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, and genetic information, and explains how to file a discrimination charge.⁸ The EEOC updated this poster in 2023, so if yours predates that, replace it.

Family and Medical Leave Act

The FMLA poster is required only for employers with 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius. It explains that eligible workers can take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year for qualifying medical and family reasons.⁹ Smaller employers do not have to post it.

OSHA Job Safety and Health

Federal OSHA has its own “Job Safety and Health — It’s the Law” poster, separate from Alaska’s state safety notice. It tells workers they have the right to a safe workplace, to report injuries, to request an inspection, and to receive safety training.¹⁰

Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Most private employers must display the EPPA notice, which tells employees and job applicants that they generally cannot be required to take a lie detector test as a condition of employment.¹¹ Government employers are exempt. The poster prints as two pages meant to be taped together into an 11-by-17-inch display.

USERRA

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act poster tells employees they can return to their civilian job after military service. Employers can satisfy this requirement by posting the notice where employee notices are usually placed, or by distributing the full text through email or another low-cost method.¹²

National Labor Relations Act

The “Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act” poster explains the right to organize, form or join a union, bargain collectively, and engage in protected concerted activity. The Alaska Department of Labor lists it among the required federal postings.⁵

Where to Download Every Poster for Free

Every required poster is free from the agency that issues it. You do not need to buy an all-in-one poster from a third-party vendor, though such products are legal to use as long as they carry the current required language.

State posters: The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development hosts downloadable PDFs on its Employment-Related Posters page. The workers’ compensation Notice of Insurance is the exception and must be obtained from your insurance carrier.⁵
Federal posters: The U.S. Department of Labor maintains a central poster page with FLSA, FMLA, EPPA, and USERRA downloads. The EEOC and OSHA host their own posters on their respective sites.¹³

State-furnished copies are free by statute under AS 23.10.105.² If you receive an invoice from a company claiming you must purchase updated posters, that is a sales pitch, not a legal requirement.

Display Rules and Remote Workers

The rule is simple: post each notice in a conspicuous place where employees can readily see it during the workday. Break rooms, hallways near the time clock, and common gathering areas all work. Posters must stay unobstructed and legible. A page curling behind a vending machine does not count.

Remote and mobile workforces are trickier because there is no shared break room. USERRA specifically allows electronic distribution as an alternative to physical posting.¹² For the other notices, no blanket federal or Alaska rule says digital delivery fully replaces a wall posting, but providing electronic copies through an intranet or email is a reasonable supplement for workers who never come into an office. Keep physical copies up at any location where employees do report in person.

Keeping Your Posters Current

Outdated posters are one of the most common compliance gaps, and Alaska’s rolling minimum wage schedule makes this especially live. The wage moves to $14.00 on July 1, 2026, and $15.00 on July 1, 2027, so you’ll need to check for an updated wage and hour summary each year for the next few years.³

Look at the revision date printed in the corner of each poster. If a newer version is out, swap it in. A quick annual pass through the Alaska Department of Labor poster page and the U.S. DOL poster page catches most changes before they turn into a citation.

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Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Wage and Hour
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Justia. Alaska Code 23.10.105 – Posting Summary Required
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Alaska Division of Elections. Ballot Measure No. 1
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Justia. Alaska Code 18.60.089 – Prohibition Against Retribution
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Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Employment-Related Posters
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FindLaw. Alaska Code 23.30.060 – Notice of Insurance
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U.S. Department of Labor. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Minimum Wage Poster
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster
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U.S. Department of Labor. Fact Sheet 28: The Family and Medical Leave Act
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Job Safety and Health Workplace Poster
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U.S. Department of Labor. Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster
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U.S. Department of Labor. Your Rights Under USERRA Poster
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U.S. Department of Labor. Workplace Posters