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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.512 - Gratuities, goods or services as part of wages, effect on minimum wage requirements.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.512. Gratuities, goods or services as part of wages, effect on minimum wage requirements. —
1. No employer of any employee who receives and retains compensation in the form of gratuities in addition to wages is required to pay wages in excess of fifty percent of the minimum wage rate specified in sections 290.500 to 290.530, however, total compensation for such employee shall total at least the minimum wage specified in sections 290.500 to 290.530, the difference being made up by the employer.
2. If an employee receives and retains compensation in the form of goods or services as an incident of his employment and if he is not required to exercise any discretion in order to receive the goods or services, the employer is required to pay only the difference between the fair market value of the goods and services and the minimum wage otherwise required to be paid by sections 290.500 to 290.530. The fair market value of the goods and services shall be computed on a weekly basis. The director shall provide by regulation a method of valuing the goods and services received by any employee in lieu of the wages otherwise required to be paid under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530. He shall also provide by regulation a method of determining those types of goods and services that are an incident of employment the receipt of which does not require any discretion on the part of the employee.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 6, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.515 - Physical or mental deficiency of employee, wage rate, determined by director, how.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.515. Physical or mental deficiency of employee, wage rate, determined by director, how. —
After a public hearing at which any person may be heard, the director shall provide by regulation for the employment in any occupation of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by physical or mental deficiency at wages lower than the wage rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530. The individuals shall be employed as the director finds appropriate to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, to avoid undue hardship, and to safeguard the wage rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530, except that no individual who maintains a production level within the limits required of other employees shall be paid less than the wage rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530. Employees affected or their guardians shall be given reasonable notice of this hearing.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 7, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.517 - Learners and apprentices, wage rate, determined by director, how.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.517. Learners and apprentices, wage rate, determined by director, how. —
After a public hearing of which individual employees affected must be given reasonable notice, the director shall provide by regulation for the employment in any occupation, at wages lower than the wage rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530, of such learners and apprentices as he finds appropriate to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment. Such wage rate for learners and apprentices shall be not less than 90 cents less than the minimum wage established by sections 290.500 to 290.530. At no time may this provision be used for the purpose of evading the spirit and meaning of sections 290.500 to 290.530.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 8, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.520 - Employer to keep records — director may inspect, records to be confidential.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.520. Employer to keep records — director may inspect, records to be confidential. —
Every employer subject to any provision of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or any regulation issued under sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall make and keep for a period of not less than three years on or about the premises wherein any employee is employed or at some other premises which is suitable to the employer, a record of the name, address and occupation of each of his employees, the rate of pay, the amount paid each pay period to each employee, the hours worked each day and each workweek by the employee and any goods or services provided by the employer to the employee as provided in section 290.512. The records shall be open for inspection by the director by appointment. Where the records required under this section are kept outside the state, the records shall be made available to the director upon demand. Every such employer shall furnish to the director on demand a sworn statement of time records and information upon forms prescribed or approved by the director. All the records and information obtained by the department of labor and industrial relations are confidential and shall be disclosed only on order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 9, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.522 - Summary of law and wage rate, employer to post, how.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.522. Summary of law and wage rate, employer to post, how. —
Every employer subject to any provision of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or of any regulations issued under sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall keep a summary of sections 290.500 to 290.530, approved by the director, and copies of any applicable wage regulations issued under sections 290.500 to 290.530, or a summary of the wage regulations posted in a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the premises wherein any person subject thereto is employed. Employers shall be furnished copies of the summaries and regulations by the state on request without charge.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 10, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.523 - Rulemaking authority.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008
290.523. Rulemaking authority. —
The department may, in accordance with chapter 536, promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the enforcement and administration of sections 290.500 to 290.530. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul
*
a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2008, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 2008 H.B. 1883 merged with H.B. 2041)
*Word "annual" appears in original rolls of H.B. 1883, 2008.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.525 - Violations — penalty.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.525. Violations — penalty. —
Any employer who hinders the director in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of sections 290.500 to 290.530 by any of the following acts is guilty of a class C misdemeanor:
(1) Refusing to admit the director to any place of employment;
(2) Failing to make, keep and preserve any records as required under the provisions 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 sworn statement of any record required under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or any other information required for the proper enforcement of sections 290.500 to 290.530 to the director upon demand;
(6) Failing to post a summary of sections 290.500 to 290.530 or a copy of any applicable regulation 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 proceeding 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 offense as to each employee;
(9) Otherwise violating any provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530.
­­Each day of violation constitutes a separate offense.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 11, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.527 - Action for underpayment of wages, employee may bring — limitation.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 06 Nov 2018, 2 histories, see footnote
290.527. Action for underpayment of wages, employee may bring — limitation. —
Any employer who pays any employee less wages than the wages to which the employee is entitled under or by virtue of sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall be liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the wage rate and an additional amount equal to twice the unpaid wages as liquidated damages, less any amount actually paid to the employee by the employer and for costs and such reasonable attorney fees as may be allowed by the court or jury. The employee may bring any legal action necessary to collect the claim. Any agreement between the employee and the employer to work for less than the wage rate shall be no defense to the action. All actions for the collection of any deficiency in wages shall be commenced within three years of the accrual of the cause of action.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 12, 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
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.528 - Minimum wage and employment benefits, limitations on political subdivisions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 2017, 2 histories
290.528. Minimum wage and employment benefits, limitations on political subdivisions. —
1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Employee"
, an individual employed in this state by an employer;
(2)
"Employer"
, any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or any other entity that is legally doing business in this state; except that, the term "employer" shall not include any public employer, as defined in section 285.525;
(3)
"Employment benefits"
, anything of value that an employee may receive from an employer in addition to wages and salary. The term includes, but is not limited to, health, disability, retirement, profit-sharing, and death benefits; group accidental death and dismemberment benefits; paid or unpaid days off from work for holidays, sick leave, vacation, and personal necessity; and terms of employment, attendance, or leave policies;
(4)
"Political subdivision"
, any municipality, special district, local governmental body, county, city, town, or village.
2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, no political subdivision shall establish, mandate, or otherwise require an employer to provide to an employee:
(1) A minimum or living wage rate; or
(2) Employment benefits;
­­that exceed state laws, rules, or regulations. Sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall preempt and nullify all political subdivision ordinances, rules, and regulations currently in effect or later enacted relating to the establishment or enforcement of a minimum or living wage or the provision of employment benefits that exceed state laws, rules, or regulations.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 13, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006, A.L. 2017 H.B. 1194 & 1193)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.529 - Severability clause.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 06 Nov 2018, see footnote
290.529. Severability clause. —
Except in the circumstances set forth in section 290.523, all the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530 are severable. If any provision, including any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, or clause, of sections 290.500 to 290.530, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unconstitutional, or unconstitutionally enacted, such decision shall not affect other provisions or applications of sections 290.500 to 290.530 that can be given effect without the invalid, unconstitutional, or unconstitutionally enacted provision or application.
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(L. 2018 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 6, 2018)
Effective 11-06-18
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.530 - Law not to interfere with collective bargaining rights.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 07 Dec 2006, see footnote
290.530. Law not to interfere with collective bargaining rights. —
Nothing in sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under the provisions of sections 290.500 to 290.530.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 14, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.550 - Definitions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.550. Definitions. —
As used in sections 290.550 to 290.580, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Laborers from nonrestrictive states"
, persons who are residents of a state which has not enacted state laws restricting Missouri laborers from working on public works projects in that state, as determined by the labor and industrial relations commission;
(2)
"Missouri laborer"
, any person who has resided in Missouri for at least thirty days and intends to become or remain a Missouri resident;
(3)
"A period of excessive unemployment"
, any month immediately following two consecutive calendar months during which the level of unemployment in the state has exceeded five percent as measured by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly publication of employment and unemployment figures;
(4)
"Public works"
, projects defined as public works pursuant to section 290.210.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.555 - Law to apply to certain projects.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.555. Law to apply to certain projects. —
Sections 290.550 to 290.580 apply to all labor on public works projects or improvements, whether skilled, semiskilled or unskilled, and whether manual or nonmanual except work done directly by any public utility company and not let to contract.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.560 - Certain laborers to be used on public works projects, when — contract provisions — exceptions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.560. Certain laborers to be used on public works projects, when — contract provisions — exceptions. —
Whenever there is a period of excessive unemployment in this state, every person who is charged with the duty, either by law or contract, of constructing or building any public works project or improvement for the state or any political subdivision, municipal corporation or other governmental unit thereof shall employ only Missouri laborers and laborers from nonrestrictive states on such project or improvement, and every contract let by any such person shall contain a provision requiring that such labor be used, except that other laborers may be used when Missouri laborers or laborers from nonrestrictive states are not available, or are incapable of performing the particular type of work involved, if so certified by the contractor and approved by the contracting officer.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.565 - Law not to apply to certain personnel.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.565. Law not to apply to certain personnel. —
The provisions of sections 290.550 to 290.580 shall not apply to regularly employed nonresident executive, supervisory or technical personnel.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.570 - Federal projects, statutes not enforced, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.570. Federal projects, statutes not enforced, when. —
In all contracts involving the expenditure of federal aid funds, sections 290.550 to 290.580 shall not be enforced in such manner as to conflict with any federal statutes or rules and regulations.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.575 - Penalties for failure to use certain laborers, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.575. Penalties for failure to use certain laborers, when. —
Any person who knowingly fails to use Missouri laborers or laborers from nonrestrictive states as required in section 290.560 shall be guilty of an infraction. Each separate case of failure to use Missouri laborers or laborers from nonrestrictive states on such public works projects or improvements shall constitute a separate offense.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 290 - Wages, Hours and Dismissal Rights › Section 290.580 - Department to enforce law — injunctive relief, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 290
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
290.580. Department to enforce law — injunctive relief, when. —
Sections 290.550 to 290.580 shall be enforced by the department of labor and industrial relations, which, as represented by the attorney general, is empowered to sue for injunctive relief against the awarding of any contract or the continuation of any work under any contract for public works or improvements at a time when the provisions of sections 290.550 to 290.580 are not being met.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 416 & 417 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.010 - Director of section to furnish bond.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
*291.010. Director of section to furnish bond. —
Before the director of the inspection section shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall give a good and sufficient bond to the state of Missouri in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be approved by the attorney general as to form, and by the governor as to sufficiency, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and that he will render an honest and accurate accounting of all funds which may come into his hands through the performance of his official duties, and said director shall be held liable on his official bond for any defalcations of any of his deputies, agents, assistants or other employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10143, A.L. 1945 p. 1097 § 10141)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13169
*The Reorganization Act of 1974 transferred all the powers, duties and functions of the division of industrial inspection to the inspection section, by type I transfer, which was therein created, and provides that all employees of this section are to be employed pursuant to the provisions of the merit system law, Chap. 36.
CROSS REFERENCE:
Section of industrial inspection of department of labor and industrial relations created, 286.110
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.020 - Location of offices — assistant directors — powers and duties.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
291.020. Location of offices — assistant directors — powers and duties. —
The principal office of the section shall be kept and maintained in Jefferson City, Missouri. In addition to the principal office in Jefferson City there shall be kept and maintained one branch office in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and one branch office in Kansas City, Missouri, located in such quarters as may be designated by the director with the approval of the secretary of the labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri. Each of such branch offices shall be in charge of an assistant director of the inspection section and each such assistant director shall be empowered to do and perform in the name of the director any act which the director himself might perform, subject however to the supervision and approval of said director of the inspection section.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10144, A.L. 1945 p. 1097 § 10142)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13170
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.030 - Employees to be retained and employed under merit system law.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
• Effective - 28 Aug 1972
291.030. Employees to be retained and employed under merit system law. —
1. Subject to the provisions of the merit system law, chapter 36, the director of the department of labor and industrial relations shall employ and prescribe the duties and powers of such persons as may be required and may make expenditures within the appropriation therefor as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the law.
2. Any person employed by the inspection section more than six months prior to August 13, 1972, shall be admitted to the qualifying examination covering the position held by him and may be retained at the discretion of the director provided that he attains a passing grade in such examination. Any employee appointed within six months prior to August 13, 1972, and any employee appointed from and after August 13, 1972, shall be appointed subject to the merit system law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10147, A.L. 1945 p. 1097, A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1260)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13173
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.040 - Salaries and compensation of subordinate officials.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
291.040. Salaries and compensation of subordinate officials. —
The salaries and compensation of the subordinate officials and employees provided for in section 291.030, shall be paid in like manner and from the same source as the salary of the director of the inspection section, upon vouchers approved by the director. The salaries and compensation shall be as follows: Assistant director of the inspection section, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum each; chief clerk, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum; administrative secretary, not exceeding four thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; three special safety inspectors, not to exceed five thousand four hundred dollars per annum each; inspectors, not to exceed five thousand four hundred dollars per annum; secretary, not exceeding four thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and stenographer, not to exceed four thousand two hundred dollars per annum, except that the two stenographers who act as office managers in the two branches shall receive a salary not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; statistician, not to exceed six thousand six hundred dollars per annum. Such compensation shall be paid the janitor as is fixed by the director, not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month for the time employed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10148, A.L. 1945 p. 1097, A.L. 1953 p. 524, A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1973 S.B. 253)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13174
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.050 - Traveling expenses to be paid.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
291.050. Traveling expenses to be paid. —
The director of the inspection section, his deputies, inspectors and other assistants and appointees shall be entitled to their actual traveling expenses when traveling within the state of Missouri on necessary business of the inspection section, which said expenses shall be paid on itemized accounts, approved by the director as other sectional expenses are approved and paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10145)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13171
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.060 - Power and duties of director and deputies.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
291.060. Power and duties of director and deputies. —
1. The director of the inspection section may divide the state into districts, assign one or more deputy inspectors to each district, and may, at his discretion, change or transfer them from one district to another.
2. It shall be the duty of the director, his assistants or deputy inspectors, to make not less than two inspections during each year of all factories, warehouses, office buildings, freight depots, machine shops, garages, laundries, tenement workshops, bakeshops, restaurants, bowling alleys, pool halls, theaters, concert halls, moving picture houses, or places of public amusement, and all other manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and workshops. The last inspection shall be completed on or before the first day of October of each year, and the director shall enforce all laws relating to the inspection of the establishments enumerated heretofore in this section, and prosecute all persons for violating the same. Any municipal ordinance relating to said establishments or their inspection shall be enforced by the director.
3. The director, his assistants and deputy inspectors, may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters concerning the enforcement of the various inspection laws relating to these establishments; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to mercantile establishments that employ less than ten persons that are located in towns and cities that have three thousand inhabitants or less.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10179)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13218; 1919 § 6782; 1909 § 7824
CROSS REFERENCES:
Child labor laws, director to enforce, 294.090
County superintendent of welfare, may act as deputy factory inspector, 205.920
Mattresses, laws regulating manufacture and sale, department of social services to enforce, Chap. 421
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.065 - Rules and regulations, how made, when effective — commission to hold hearings, exceptions.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1972
291.065. Rules and regulations, how made, when effective — commission to hold hearings, exceptions. —
The director may adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations necessary to implement any of the provisions of this law; provided, however, that no such rule or regulation shall be adopted except after a public hearing before the labor and industrial relations commission to be held after thirty days prior notice by public advertisement of the date, time and place of the hearing and opportunity given to the public to be heard. Thereafter, subject to the provisions of chapter 536, such rules and regulations are to become effective ten days after their approval by the commission, and after copies thereof have been filed in the office of the secretary of state. The adoption, amending or rescinding of rules and regulations relating to the internal management of the section shall not require prior approval of the labor and industrial relations commission, nor public hearing to become effective.
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(L. 1972 H.B. 1260)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.070 - Statistics assembled.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
291.070. Statistics assembled. —
The inspection section shall collect, assort and systematize statistical details and information relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes of the state and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industries of the state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10153, A. 1949 S.B. 1106)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13179; 1919 § 6738; 1909 § 7784
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.080 - Information gathered — blanks furnished.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
291.080. Information gathered — blanks furnished. —
The director of the inspection section is hereby directed to collect any information he may deem necessary to carry out the objects of the department as set forth in section 291.070, and is hereby authorized to furnish suitable blanks to managers of public service corporations, county, city and township officers, and to the officers of prisons, penal and reformatory institutions, and it shall be the duty of all such managers and officers to furnish such information as the director may require and which may be in their possession with the least possible delay.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10158)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13184; 1919 § 6745; 1909 § 7791
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.120 - Annual report to governor.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
291.120. Annual report to governor. —
The labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri, with the assistance of the director of the inspection section of the department of labor and industrial relations shall, on or before the first day of February of each year, present a report in writing to the governor, which shall contain statistical details relating to the operation of the section under sections 196.270 to 196.305, and chapters 290, 292 and 421, including such information as is contemplated by section 291.070.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10154, A.L. 1945 p. 1097)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13180; 1919 § 6740; 1909 § 7786
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.140 - Director to investigate serious accidents — recommendations.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
291.140. Director to investigate serious accidents — recommendations. —
The director of the inspection section shall make an investigation of all accidents serious enough to require physical rehabilitation, under the provisions of the state board of rehabilitation, and make safety recommendations to the employers of the injured employees.
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(L. 1965 p. 440 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 291 - Industrial Inspection › Section 291.150 - Director to make annual report to governor.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 291
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
291.150. Director to make annual report to governor. —
The director shall also make and submit to the governor on or before the last Monday in January in each year, a report containing a full and complete account of the investigations, together with any other suggestions and recommendations he considers to be of value to the people of the state, which shall be laid before the next succeeding general assembly.
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(L. 1965 p. 440 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.010 - Notification of occupancy of factory.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.010. Notification of occupancy of factory. —
Within one month after the occupancy of any factory, workshop or mill, the occupant shall notify the director in writing, of such occupancy.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10199)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13239; 1919 § 6804; 1909 § 7845
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.020 - Equipment to be guarded.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.020. Equipment to be guarded. —
The belting, shafting, machines, machinery, gearing and drums in all manufacturing, mechanical and other establishments in this state, when so placed as to be dangerous to persons employed therein or thereabout while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall be safely and securely guarded when possible; if not possible, then notice of its danger shall be conspicuously posted in such establishments. Whenever the director of the inspection section, or his assistant, or deputy, finds that guards have not been installed or notice of danger posted, as required by the provisions of this section, he shall at once, in writing, order the owner or owners, or the person or persons in charge of the machinery, plant, establishment, or place, to make the alterations, additions, or repairs necessary within ten days; and if the said alterations, additions or repairs be not made within ten days from the date of such order, then such failure to make such alterations shall be deemed a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250, and in addition to the penalties herein prescribed for such violations, the director or his assistant or deputy, shall be and is hereby empowered to, and he shall seal said defective appliance or appliances in such a manner as to render the same inoperative until said order of the director has been complied with.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10182)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13222; 1919 § 6786; 1909 § 7828
(1961) In action under this section for damages for injury to plaintiff's hand caught in wood elevator while working at defendant's charcoal manufacturing plant, plaintiff failed to make a submissible case by showing it was possible to safeguard the dangerous condition, and since plaintiff was aware of the danger, failure to warn was immaterial. Schnieders v. Stegeman (A.), 344 S.W.2d 645.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.030 - Safety guards.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.030. Safety guards. —
All power-driven circular saws must be provided with safety guards which raise and lower automatically for various thicknesses of material, and must also be provided with a kickback dog to prevent the board binding on the saw and flying back. Said appliances shall be subject to the approval of the director of the inspection section, his assistants or deputies.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10183)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13223; 1919 § 6787
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.040 - Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
292.040. Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery. —
No minor shall be required to clean any part of the mill, gearing or machinery while it is in motion in such establishment, nor shall any minor under the age of sixteen years be required to work between the fixed and traversing or the traversing parts of any machine while it is in motion by the action of steam, water, electricity or other mechanical power.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10184, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13224; 1919 § 6788; 1909 § 7829
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.050 - Openings to be guarded.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.050. Openings to be guarded. —
The openings of all hatchways, elevators and wellholes upon every floor of every manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile or public building in this state shall be protected by good and sufficient trapdoors or self-closing hatches or safety catches, or strong guard rails at least three feet high, and all due diligence shall be used to keep such trapdoors closed at all times, except when in actual use by the occupant of the building having the use and control of the same. Whenever the director of the inspection section, or one of his assistants or deputies, finds any violations of the foregoing requirement to guard hatchways, elevators and wellholes, he shall at once, in writing, notify the owner or owners thereof, or the person or persons in charge of said appliance or appliances, to make the necessary alterations, additions or repairs within ten days; and if said alterations, additions or repairs are not made within ten days from the date of such notice, the director or his assistant or deputy, shall seal such appliance or appliances in such a manner as to render the same inoperative until there has been compliance with the order of the director.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10185)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13225; 1919 § 6789; 1909 § 7830
(1978) This statute is only for protection of employees in building where elevator is located and does not preempt the field of elevator safety for municipalities to make regulations for the health and safety of the general public. Temple Building v. Building Code Board of Appeals of the City of Kansas City (A.), 567 S.W.2d 406.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.060 - Fire escapes.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.060. Fire escapes. —
All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishments in this state, of two or more stories in height, in which twenty or more persons are employed above the first floor thereof, shall be provided with at least one or more outside iron fire escapes. For every twenty persons employed on every floor above the second floor of such establishment, there shall be one rope or portable fire escape, and each story shall be amply supplied with means of extinguishing fire.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10186)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13226; 1919 § 6790; 1909 § 7831
CROSS REFERENCE:
Fire escapes on buildings generally, Chap. 320
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.070 - Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.070. Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when. —
In all such establishments the main doors, both inside and outside, shall open outwardly, when the director, in writing, so directs; and no outside or inside door of any building wherein labor is employed shall be so locked, bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of labor as to prevent egress.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10187)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13227; 1919 § 6791; 1909 § 7832
CROSS REFERENCE:
Doors to certain buildings to open outwardly, 320.070
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.080 - Explosives not to be placed near egress.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.080. Explosives not to be placed near egress. —
No explosive or inflammable compound shall be used in any establishment in this state where labor is employed, in such place or manner as to obstruct or render hazardous the egress of operatives in case of fire.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10189)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13229; 1919 § 6793; 1909 § 7834
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.090 - Scaffolding — warning to those near building.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.090. Scaffolding — warning to those near building. —
All scaffolds or structures used in or for the erection, repairing or taking down of any kind of building shall be well and safely supported, and of sufficient width, and so secured as to insure the safety of persons working thereon, or passing under or about the same, against the falling therein, or the falling of such materials or articles as may be used, placed or deposited thereon. All persons engaged in the erection, repairing or taking down of any kind of building shall exercise due caution and care so as to prevent injury or accident to those at work or nearby.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10198)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13238; 1919 § 6802; 1909 § 7843
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.110 - Ventilation.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.110. Ventilation. —
All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this state shall be so ventilated as to render harmless all impurities, as near as may be.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10192)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13232; 1919 § 6796; 1909 § 7837
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.120 - Prevention of dust, smoke and gas.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.120. Prevention of dust, smoke and gas. —
Every person, firm or corporation using any polishing wheel or machine of any character which generates dust, smoke or poisonous gases in its operation, shall provide each and every such wheel or machine with a hood, which shall be connected with a blower or suction fan of sufficient power to carry off said dust, smoke and gases and prevent its inhalation by those employed about said wheel or machine; and any violation of this section is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and a person, firm or corporation so violating this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense. It shall be the duty of the director of the inspection section and his assistants and deputies to see that this section is enforced and to prosecute any violations thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10194)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13234; 1919 § 6798; 1909 § 7839
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.130 - Director may order fan installed.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.130. Director may order fan installed. —
In all establishments in this state wherein labor is employed, where any process is carried on by which dust or smoke is generated, the director of the inspection section and his assistants and deputies shall have the power and the authority to order that a fan or some other contrivance be put in to prevent the inhalation of such dust or smoke by employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10195)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13235; 1919 § 6799; 1909 § 7840
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.140 - Overcrowding in factories prohibited.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.140. Overcrowding in factories prohibited. —
Where, in the opinion of the director, any establishment wherein labor is employed is so overcrowded with employees as to endanger health or safety, the director of the inspection section, when supported in his opinion by the opinion of some reputable physician, shall be authorized and empowered to prohibit such overcrowding.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10196)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13236; 1919 § 6800; 1909 § 7841
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.150 - Washrooms for women.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
292.150. Washrooms for women. —
In every factory, workshop or other establishment in this state where girls or women are employed, where unclean work of any kind has to be performed, suitable places shall be provided for such girls or women to wash and dress.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10190, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13230; 1919 § 6794; 1909 § 7835
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees › Section 292.160 - Separate water closets.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 292
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
292.160. Separate water closets. —
Separate water closets shall be provided for the use of employees of either sex in manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this state where persons of both sexes are employed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10191)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13231; 1919 § 6795; 1909 § 7836