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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Frank grants the employer’s motion to dismiss the employee’s Fair Labor Standards Act, declaratory judgment, good faith and fair dealing and Minnesota Payment of Wages act claims, but denies its motion with respect to her claims of retaliation under the Minnesota Whistleblower Act, breach of contract and unjust enrichment. The FLSA claim was voluntarily dismissed, the declaratory judgment claim is duplicative of the breach of contract claim, and the employee did not make a demand for unpaid wages prior to litigation as required under the Payment of Wages Act. The employee has also alleged breaches of expressed, but not implied, covenants. The unjust enrichment claim has been sufficiently pled for this stage, since findings about the scope, validity or enforceability of the employee’s employment agreement is better reserved for summary judgment, and the contract and whistleblower claims are similarly sufficiently pled, since the employee has alleged that termination without cause would breach her contract and that she was terminated following a report of forgery.