Effective – 28 Aug 1939 290.010. What constitutes a day’s labor. — From and after the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the period of eight hours shall be and constitute a legal day’s work; but nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent parties to any […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1981 290.020. Limitation of working hours in certain industries, exception by consent of worker. — It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, company or corporation engaged in carrying on any kind of mining, mechanical, chemical manufacturing or smelting business, to work their employees in any mill or mills, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 290.030. Penalty. — Any person or persons, company or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of section 290.020 shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 10168) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13207; 1919 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1955 290.080. Employees paid semimonthly, exception — statement of deductions — violation, misdemeanor. — All corporations doing business in this state, and all persons operating railroads or railroad shops in this state, shall pay the wages and salaries of their employees as often as semimonthly, within sixteen days of the close […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 290.090. Factory employees paid semimonthly — amount withheld — penalty. — The employees of the operators of all manufactories, including plate glass manufactories, operated within this state shall be regularly paid in full of all wages due them at least once in every fifteen days, in lawful money, and at […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories 290.095. Wage subsidies, bid supplements, and rebates for employment prohibited, when — violation, penalty. — 1. No contractor or subcontractor may directly or indirectly receive a wage subsidy, bid supplement, or rebate for employment on a public works project if such wage subsidy, bid supplement, or rebate has […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 290.100. Thirty days’ notice of reduction of wages, how. — Any railway, mining, express, telegraph, manufacturing or other company or corporation doing business in this state, and desiring to reduce the wages of its employees, or any of them, shall give to the employees to be affected thereby thirty days’ […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1972 290.110. Payment due discharged employee — exceptions — penalty for delay. — Whenever any person, firm or corporation doing business in this state shall discharge, with or without cause, or refuse to further employ any servant or employee thereof, the unpaid wages of the servant or employee then earned at […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 290.120. Employee not entitled to benefits, when. — No such servant or employee who secretes or absents himself to avoid payment to him, or refuses to receive the same when fully tendered, shall be entitled to any benefit under sections 290.110 and 290.120 for such time as he so avoids […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1943 290.130. Action by employees for breach of employment contract. — Any such servant or employee whose employment is for a definite period of time, and who is discharged without cause before the expiration of such time, may, in addition to the penalty prescribed by this law, have an action against […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1982 290.140. Letter of dismissal, when — failure to issue, damages — punitive damages, limitations. — 1. Whenever any employee of any corporation doing business in this state and which employs seven or more employees, who shall have been in the service of said corporation for a period of at least […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2006, 2 histories 290.145. Discrimination, refusal to hire or discharge employee for alcohol or tobacco use not during working hours, prohibited, exception — not cause for legal actions. — It shall be an improper employment practice for an employer to refuse to hire, or to discharge, any individual, or to otherwise […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1999 290.152. Employer response to request for information about current or former employee, contents, requirements, civil immunity, when. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (1) “Employer”, any individual, organization, partnership, political subdivision, corporation or other legal entity which has or had in the entity’s employ […]
