Payment due discharged employee
When a business fires or lets go of a worker, that worker's earned pay is due on the last day of work. If the worker asks in writing for their pay to be sent to a nearby station or office, the business has seven days to get it there. If the business fails to pay in time, the worker's wages keep adding up as a penalty — at the same pay rate — until they are paid, but that penalty stops after 60 days. This law does not apply to workers who mainly earn commissions and whose job involves collecting payments, managing stock, or similar work that requires an audit to figure out the final amount owed.
290.110. Payment due employee — exceptions — for delay. — Whenever any person, firm or doing business in this state shall , 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 the contract rate, without or , shall be and become due and payable on the day of the discharge or refusal to longer employ and the servant or employee may request in writing of his foreman or the of his time to have the money due him, or a valid check therefor, sent to any station or office where a regular is kept; and if the money or a valid check therefor, does not reach the station or office within seven days from the date it is so requested, then as a penalty for such nonpayment the wages of the servant or employee shall continue from the date of the discharge or refusal to further employ, at the same rate until paid; provided, such wages shall not continue more than sixty days. This section shall not apply in the case of an employee whose for work is based primarily on and whose duties include collection of accounts, care of a stock or and similar activities and where an is necessary or customary in to determine the net amount due.
(RSMo 1939 § 5082, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 76, A.L. 1963 p. 414, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1203)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4610; 1919 § 9804
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