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Employment law in United States — Missouri

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 288.110 - Transfer of employer accounts — successor employer liabilities — unemployment experience, how treated — penalties — definitions

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  Successor employers can inherit a predecessor’s unemployment account, experience, and liabilities when they acquire substantially all of a business, and certain violations can trigger rate increases or a civil penalty.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 287.020 - Definitions — intent to abrogate earlier case law

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  This section defines key workers’ compensation terms like employee, accident, injury, death, total disability, minor, and several agency terms.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 287.030 - Employer defined

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  This section defines who counts as an employer for this chapter.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 285.1025 - Employer immunity from liability, when

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  Certain employers are not liable for specified plan investment and benefit decisions or related losses.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 287.300 - Employer's liability primary or secondary — notice and service, when sufficient

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  An employer must provide insurance-related information and documents when requested, and the insurer has a right to notice after it appears.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 454.1617 - Employer's compliance with two or more income withholding orders

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  If an employer gets two or more income withholding orders for the same obligor, it satisfies the orders by following the law of the obligor’s principal place of employment to set withholding priorities and allocate withheld income.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 169.360 - Trustees shall report annually to employers district's contribution, certification — transfer of funds

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  Trustees must certify annual employer amounts by July 1, and employers must appropriate and transfer the certified money on the stated deadlines; starting January 1, 2019, employers must also transfer employer contributions after each payroll period when member contributions are transferred.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 337.709 - Laws not to be construed to require employment of marital and family therapists

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  This section says sections 337.700 to 337.739 do not require any agency, corporation, or organization to hire licensed marital and family therapists unless another law already does.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 285.705 - Definitions

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  This section defines key terms used in the PEO statute and says people providing professional employer services are subject to registration and regulation.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 92.170 - Employers may collect tax, and allowance may be authorized

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  Cities may require employers to collect and remit certain employee-earnings tax, and employers may keep 1.5% of the amount collected unless the city changes that fee by ordinance.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 285.230 - Transient employers, defined, bonding requirements — exceptions — specific requirements — penalties — records to be kept, how — discontinuance in activity, notice to director of revenue — inapplicability to certain out-of-state businesses

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  Transient employers in Missouri must file a financial assurance instrument, keep payroll records, certify workers’ compensation coverage, and give notice before stopping activity, unless an exception applies.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 302.275 - Notification by employer of school bus driver to director of revenue, when, penalty for noncompliance, by an employer

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  Employers of school bus drivers must notify the director of revenue within 10 days after learning the driver failed a required drug, alcohol, or chemical test.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 287.130 - Employer's liability joint and several — contribution allowable

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  If an employee is injured or killed while working jointly for two or more employers, those employers are jointly and severally liable, and the employee may pursue any or all of them.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 454.645 - Discharge, discipline prohibited — rebuttable presumption — civil contempt proceeding authorized, procedure

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  Employers may not fire, discipline, or refuse to hire an employee because of a qualifying order or notice.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 143.221 - Employer's return and payment of tax withheld

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  Employers that must withhold tax must file withholding returns and pay the withheld tax on the required schedule.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 454.505 - Garnishment of wages, when, procedure, limitations — notice to employer, contents — employer, duties, liabilities — priorities — discharge of employee prohibited, when, penalties for — orders issued by another state, laws to govern

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  This section requires income withholding for support orders and sets duties for the director, employers or other payers, and the obligor.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 486.805 - Liability for damages by notary, surety, or employer of notary, when

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  This section makes a notary, the surety on the notary’s bond, and sometimes the notary’s employer liable for damages caused by specified notarial misconduct.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 70.635 - Member's termination of employment, effect of — reemployment in system — retirement, service with more than one employer, effect of

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  A member stops being a member when no longer employed in covered service, and retirement generally ends membership too.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 217.592 - Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds — inmate employment, wages

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  The director may lease correctional-center buildings to a private entity to run a plasmapheresis program, and a participating corporation may hire or fire selected offenders only with the director’s approval.

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  Missouri Revised Statutes § 390.066 - Application for employment, information of previous employment required — employer not to allow driver to drive on suspended, revoked or cancelled license, penalty — division of motor carrier and railroad safety to perform audit, purpose, set rates for carriers of commodities in dump trucks, exceptions

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  Job applicants for commercial motor vehicle driver positions must give their employer prior employment history, employers must request it and explain its purpose, and employers or shippers may not let disqualified drivers operate.

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