Work
70 laws
Missouri employment laws cover wages, hours, minimum wage, and workplace conditions. These statutes set the baseline standards for employers and employees in the state.
What constitutes a day's labor
RSMo 290.010
Limitation of working hours in certain industries, exception by consent of worker
RSMo 290.020
Penalty
RSMo 290.030
Employees paid semimonthly, exception
RSMo 290.080
Factory employees paid semimonthly
RSMo 290.090
Wage subsidies, bid supplements, and rebates for employment prohibited, when
RSMo 290.095
Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how
RSMo 290.100
Payment due discharged employee
RSMo 290.110
Employee not entitled to benefits, when
RSMo 290.120
Action by employees for breach of employment contract
RSMo 290.130
Letter of dismissal, when
RSMo 290.140
Discrimination, refusal to hire or discharge employee for alcohol or tobacco use not during working hours, prohibited, exception
RSMo 290.145
Employer response to request for information about current or former employee, contents, requirements, civil immunity, when
RSMo 290.152
Definitions
RSMo 290.210
Policy declared
RSMo 290.220
Prevailing wage rates required on construction of public works
RSMo 290.230
On-the-job training periods, use of entry-level workers and apprentices
RSMo 290.235
Department inquiry into complaints
RSMo 290.240
Applicable wage rates, incorporation into contracts
RSMo 290.250
Determination of prevailing wage
RSMo 290.257
Determination of hourly rate for heavy and highway construction work, when made, where filed, objections, hearing, determination
RSMo 290.260
Determination of hourly rate, certification
RSMo 290.262
Wage rates to equal or exceed federal minimum wage
RSMo 290.263
Wage rates posted, where
RSMo 290.265
Declaration as to wages final
RSMo 290.270
Administration of oaths
RSMo 290.280
Contractor's payroll records, contents
RSMo 290.290
Actions for wages by worker authorized
RSMo 290.300
Rebates by workers prohibited, exception
RSMo 290.305
Deductions from wages, agreement to be written, approval of public body required
RSMo 290.315
Advertising for bids before wage rates are determined prohibited
RSMo 290.320
Awarding contract or payment without wage rate determination prohibited
RSMo 290.325
Convicted violators of sections 290.210 to 290.340 listed, effect of
RSMo 290.330
Notice of violation, failure to comply, attorney general shall sue, injunctive relief authorized
RSMo 290.335
Penalty for violation
RSMo 290.340
Request for arbitration, when, how made
RSMo 290.350
Board members
RSMo 290.360
Hearing and recommendations of board
RSMo 290.370
Expenses of board members to be paid
RSMo 290.380
Definitions
RSMo 290.400
Employer not to pay female lower wage
RSMo 290.410
Female may register complaint
RSMo 290.420
Labor and industrial relations commission to mediate wage disputes
RSMo 290.430
Female may recover wages, when
RSMo 290.440
Actions to be instituted in circuit court
RSMo 290.450
Powers and duties of commission
RSMo 290.460
Definitions
RSMo 290.500
Minimum wage rate
RSMo 290.502
Overtime compensation, applicable number of hours, exceptions
RSMo 290.505
Agriculture, law not applicable
RSMo 290.507
Director may investigate to prove compliance
RSMo 290.510
Gratuities, goods or services as part of wages, effect on minimum wage requirements
RSMo 290.512
Physical or mental deficiency of employee, wage rate, determined by director, how
RSMo 290.515
Learners and apprentices, wage rate, determined by director, how
RSMo 290.517
Employer to keep records
RSMo 290.520
Summary of law and wage rate, employer to post, how
RSMo 290.522
Rulemaking authority
RSMo 290.523
Violations
RSMo 290.525
Action for underpayment of wages, employee may bring
RSMo 290.527
Minimum wage and employment benefits, limitations on political subdivisions
RSMo 290.528
Severability clause
RSMo 290.529
Law not to interfere with collective bargaining rights
RSMo 290.530
Definitions
RSMo 290.550
Law to apply to certain projects
RSMo 290.555
Certain laborers to be used on public works projects, when
RSMo 290.560
Law not to apply to certain personnel
RSMo 290.565
Federal projects, statutes not enforced, when
RSMo 290.570
Penalties for failure to use certain laborers, when
RSMo 290.575
Department to enforce law
RSMo 290.580
Labor organization membership, dues, and fees not required as condition of employment
RSMo 290.590