Effective - 06 Nov 2018, 2 histories
290.502. Minimum wage rate — increase or decrease, when. — 1. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, effective January 1, 2007, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of $6.50 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the prevailing federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher.
2. The minimum wage shall be increased or decreased on January 1, 2008, and on January 1 of successive years, by the increase or decrease in the cost of living. On September 30, 2007, and on each September 30 of each successive year, the director shall measure the increase or decrease in the cost of living by the percentage increase or decrease as of the preceding July over the level as of July of the immediately preceding year of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) or successor index as published by the U.S. Department of Labor or its successor agency, with the amount of the minimum wage increase or decrease rounded to the nearest five cents.
3. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, and notwithstanding subsection 1* of this section, effective January 1, 2019, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of not less than $8.60 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the prevailing federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher. Thereafter, the minimum wage established by this subsection shall be increased each year by $.85 per hour, effective January 1 of each of the next four years, until it reaches $12.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2023. Thereafter, the minimum wage established by this subsection shall be increased or decreased on January 1, 2024, and on January 1 of successive years, per the method set forth in subsection 2** of this section. If at any time the federal minimum wage rate is above or is thereafter increased above the minimum wage then in effect under this subsection, the minimum wage required by this subsection shall continue to be increased pursuant to this subsection ***, but the higher federal rate shall immediately become the minimum wage required by this subsection and shall be increased or decreased per the method set forth in subsection 2** for so long as it remains higher than the state minimum wage required and increased pursuant to this subsection.
4. For purposes of this section, the term "public employer" means an employer that is the state or a political subdivision of the state, including a department, agency, officer, bureau, division, board, commission, or instrumentality of the state, or a city, county, town, village, school district, or other political subdivision of the state. Subsection 3**** of this section shall not apply to a public employer with respect to its employees. Any public employer that is subject to subsections 1* and 2** of this section shall continue to be subject to those subsections.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 2, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006, A.L. 2018 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 6, 2018)
Effective 11-06-18
*Words "subsection (1)" appear in original rolls.
**Words "subsection (2)" appear in original rolls.
***Number "(3)" appears here in original rolls.
****Words "subsection (3)" appear in original rolls.
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.