Effective - 28 Aug 1939
290.090. Factory employees paid semimonthly — amount withheld — penalty. — The employees of the operators of all manufactories, including plate glass manufactories, operated within this state shall be regularly paid in full of all wages due them at least once in every fifteen days, in lawful money, and at no pay day shall there be withheld from the earnings of any employee any sum to exceed the amount due him for his labor for five days next preceding any such pay day. Any such operator who fails and refuses to pay his employees, their agents, assigns or anyone duly authorized to collect such wages, as in this section provided, shall become immediately liable to any such employee, his agents or assigns for an amount double the sum due such employee at the time of such failure to pay the wages due, to be recovered by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction within this state, and no employee, within the meaning of this section, shall be deemed to have waived any right accruing to him under this section by any contract he may make contrary to the provisions hereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10175)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13214; 1919 § 6775; 1909 § 7817
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights
Section 290.010 - What constitutes a day's labor.
Section 290.020 - Limitation of working hours in certain industries, exception by consent of worker.
Section 290.090 - Factory employees paid semimonthly — amount withheld — penalty.
Section 290.100 - Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how.
Section 290.110 - Payment due discharged employee — exceptions — penalty for delay.
Section 290.120 - Employee not entitled to benefits, when.
Section 290.130 - Action by employees for breach of employment contract.
Section 290.210 - Definitions.
Section 290.220 - Policy declared.
Section 290.240 - Department inquiry into complaints — rulemaking authority.
Section 290.263 - Wage rates to equal or exceed federal minimum wage.
Section 290.265 - Wage rates posted, where.
Section 290.270 - Declaration as to wages final — maximum wages and hours not limited.
Section 290.280 - Administration of oaths — subpoenas — enforcement of subpoenas.
Section 290.300 - Actions for wages by worker authorized.
Section 290.305 - Rebates by workers prohibited, exception.
Section 290.315 - Deductions from wages, agreement to be written, approval of public body required.
Section 290.320 - Advertising for bids before wage rates are determined prohibited.
Section 290.325 - Awarding contract or payment without wage rate determination prohibited.
Section 290.330 - Convicted violators of sections 290.210 to 290.340 listed, effect of.
Section 290.340 - Penalty for violation.
Section 290.350 - Request for arbitration, when, how made — board to be appointed.
Section 290.360 - Board members — selected, how — officers.
Section 290.370 - Hearing and recommendations of board.
Section 290.380 - Expenses of board members to be paid.
Section 290.400 - Definitions.
Section 290.410 - Employer not to pay female lower wage.
Section 290.420 - Female may register complaint.
Section 290.430 - Labor and industrial relations commission to mediate wage disputes.
Section 290.440 - Female may recover wages, when — burden of proof.
Section 290.450 - Actions to be instituted in circuit court — limitations.
Section 290.460 - Powers and duties of commission.
Section 290.500 - Definitions.
Section 290.502 - Minimum wage rate — increase or decrease, when.
Section 290.505 - Overtime compensation, applicable number of hours, exceptions.
Section 290.507 - Agriculture, law not applicable.
Section 290.510 - Director may investigate to prove compliance.
Section 290.515 - Physical or mental deficiency of employee, wage rate, determined by director, how.
Section 290.517 - Learners and apprentices, wage rate, determined by director, how.
Section 290.520 - Employer to keep records — director may inspect, records to be confidential.
Section 290.522 - Summary of law and wage rate, employer to post, how.
Section 290.523 - Rulemaking authority.
Section 290.525 - Violations — penalty.
Section 290.527 - Action for underpayment of wages, employee may bring — limitation.
Section 290.528 - Minimum wage and employment benefits, limitations on political subdivisions.
Section 290.529 - Severability clause.
Section 290.530 - Law not to interfere with collective bargaining rights.
Section 290.550 - Definitions.
Section 290.555 - Law to apply to certain projects.
Section 290.565 - Law not to apply to certain personnel.
Section 290.570 - Federal projects, statutes not enforced, when.
Section 290.575 - Penalties for failure to use certain laborers, when.
Section 290.580 - Department to enforce law — injunctive relief, when.