Violations
An employer breaks the law if they block the director from doing their job. This includes things like not letting the director into the workplace, faking or hiding records, firing a worker who reported unpaid wages, or paying workers less than the required wage. Each week an employer pays too little counts as a separate offense. Breaking any of these rules is a class C misdemeanor.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
290.525. Violations — . — Any employer who hinders the in the performance of his duties in the of sections 290.500 to 290.530 by any of the following acts is guilty of a :
(1) Refusing to admit the director to any place of ;
(2) Failing to make, keep and preserve any s as required under the of sections 290.500 to 290.530;
(3) Falsifying any record required under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530;
(4) Refusing to make any record required under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530 accessible to the director;
(5) Refusing to furnish a of any record required under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or any other required for the proper enforcement of sections 290.500 to 290.530 to the director upon ;
(6) Failing to post a of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or a copy of any applicable as required;
(7) Discharging or in any other manner discriminating against any employee who has notified the director that he has not been paid wages in accordance with the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530, or who has caused to be instituted any under or related to sections 290.500 to 290.530, or who has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding;
(8) Paying or agreeing to pay wages at a rate less than the rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530. Payment at such rate for any week or portion of a week constitutes a separate as to each employee;
(9) Otherwise violating any provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 11, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
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