Missouri’s prevailing wage law sets the minimum wage rate that is required to be paid on all public works projects in the state. These include the construction of roads, bridges and government buildings paid out of state or local government
In the week since it started at a South St. Louis Jimmy John’s restaurant, a local work stoppage has blossomed into a worker protest. No less than two-dozen fast-food eateries in the area now have workers who are participating in
Republicans reintroduced a bill that has been turned down several times in the past. The proposed new name of the bill is the Working Families Flexibility Act. The current wage laws require employers to pay employees time and a half
Missouri and Kansas fast-food workers may be interested in the unionization efforts of fast-food workers and new wage laws in other parts of the country. Workers in New York fast-food restaurants recently held a one day strike to publicize their
Missouri residents may recall that during his State of the Union address, President Obama recommended raising minimum wage. He proposed that the minimum wage be steadily increased to $9 by 2015, and after that time, he recommended that it be
Kansas City readers may have recently heard about President Obama’s recent initiative to increase the minimum wage. The federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009, and analysts note that it has significantly lagged behind increases in the cost of
Although Texas has more construction worker fatalities than any other state, most of its workers don’t receive compensation. A majority earn extremely low wages, and almost one-fourth of workers have come forward with allegations that their employers withheld or denied
It was almost exactly 50 years ago that the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was enacted into federal law. The legislation was enacted with the aim of eliminating the large wage gap that existed between male and female earners. On
A lot of employees in Kansas City have a limited amount of sick time available to them for when they catch the common cold or wake up with the flu. During flu season this time doesn’t always cover every single
In our Employment Law blog, we’ve talked in the past about seeking help when something just doesn’t feel right in the workplace. Some people are tentative about seeking counsel when they aren’t sure that they have a claim, but are
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