Missouri employment laws

Missouri makes a fired employee's wages due on the day of discharge; if a written request for payment goes unmet for seven days, wages continue as a penalty for up to 60 days. Employees who quit are covered only by the federal next-payday baseline.

Missouri briefly had a voter-enacted paid sick leave law — Proposition A's earned paid sick time — but the legislature repealed it effective August 28, 2025. Missouri now has no state sick leave mandate.