Factory employees paid semimonthly
Workers at factories in Missouri must be paid at least every 15 days in real money. On any payday, the factory owner cannot hold back more than 5 days' worth of pay. If a factory owner refuses to pay what is owed, that owner must pay the worker double the amount owed. A worker cannot sign away these rights in a contract.
290.090. Factory employees paid — amount withheld — . — The employees of the s of all manufactories, including 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 , and at no pay day shall there be withheld from the earnings of any employee any sum to exceed the amount due him for his labor for five days next preceding any such pay day. Any such operator who fails and refuses to pay his employees, their agents, or anyone to collect such wages, as in this section provided, shall become immediately to any such employee, his agents or assigns for an amount double the sum due such employee at the time of such failure to pay the wages due, to be recovered by in any within this state, and no employee, within the meaning of this section, shall be to have any right to him under this section by any contract he may make contrary to the hereof.
(RSMo 1939 § 10175)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13214; 1919 § 6775; 1909 § 7817
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