In Missouri, a legal workday is 8 hours long. However, a worker and employer can agree in a contract to work more or fewer than 8 hours. This rule does not apply to workers paid by the month or to farm workers.
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 ; but nothing in this section shall be so as to prevent parties to any contract for work, s or labor from agreeing upon a longer or shorter time. This section shall not apply to persons hired or employed by the month, nor to laborers or farm hands in the service of farmers or others engaged in agriculture.
(RSMo 1939 § 10166)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13205; 1919 § 6766; 1909 § 7812
, employees allowed three hours to vote, 115.639
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