Employer to keep records
Businesses that pay workers must keep records about each worker for at least three years. These records include the worker's name, address, job, pay rate, hours worked each day and week, and any goods or services given to the worker instead of pay. The state labor director can look at these records by appointment, and all information collected stays private unless a court orders it to be shared.
290.520. Employer to keep s — may inspect, records to be confidential. — Every employer subject to any of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or any issued under sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall make and keep for a period of not less than three years on or about the wherein any employee is employed or at some other premises which is suitable to the employer, a record of the name, address and of each of his employees, the rate of pay, the amount paid each pay period to each employee, the hours worked each day and each by the employee and any goods or services provided by the employer to the employee as provided in section 290.512. The records shall be open for inspection by the director by appointment. Where the records required under this section are kept outside the state, the records shall be made available to the director upon . Every such employer shall furnish to the director on demand a of time records and upon forms prescribed or approved by the director. All the records and information obtained by the are confidential and shall be disclosed only on of a .
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Source & history notes
(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 9, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
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