Certain companies in Missouri that want to lower their workers' pay must warn those workers 30 days ahead of time. The warning can be posted in a visible spot at the workplace or mailed to each worker. It has to say which workers are affected and how much the pay will be cut. If a company breaks this rule, each affected worker can sue and collect $50 from the company.
290.100. Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how. — Any railway, mining, express, telegraph, manufacturing or other company or 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' notice thereof. Such notice may be given by a written or printed handbill, specifying the class of employees whose wages are to be reduced and the amount of the reduction, in a in or about the shops, station, office, depot or other place where said employees may be at work, or by mailing each employee a copy of said notice or handbill, and such company or corporation violating any of the of this section shall and pay each affected thereby the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered by in the name of the injured party, with , before any .
(RSMo 1939 §§ 5066, 5067, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 75)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 4590, 4591; 1919 §§ 9782, 9783; 1909 §§ 3022, 3023
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