Effective - 28 Aug 1943
290.100. Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how. — Any railway, mining, express, telegraph, manufacturing or other company or corporation doing business in this state, and desiring to reduce the wages of its employees, or any of them, shall give to the employees to be affected thereby thirty days' notice thereof. Such notice may be given by posting a written or printed handbill, specifying the class of employees whose wages are to be reduced and the amount of the reduction, in a conspicuous place in or about the shops, station, office, depot or other place where said employees may be at work, or by mailing each employee a copy of said notice or handbill, and such company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay each party affected thereby the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the name of the injured party, with costs, before any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 5066, 5067, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 75)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 4590, 4591; 1919 §§ 9782, 9783; 1909 §§ 3022, 3023
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.