226.080. Salaries, how fixed--veterans' preference authorized. - Missouri Statutes

Salaries, how fixed--veterans' preference authorized.

226.080. The salaries of the department heads, engineers,clerks and other employees shall be fixed by the commission,except that the compensation of clerical or other nontechnicalemployees of the department shall not exceed that of those insimilar employment in other departments of the state. Preferenceshall be given, other conditions being equal, to employment ofhonorably discharged members of the armed services, but any otherpreference or discrimination in connection with employment isdeclared to be unlawful.

(RSMo 1939 § 8748, A.L. 1951 p. 800, A.L. 1955 p. 764, A.L. 1959 H.B. 134, A.L. 1963 p. 392, A.L. 1967 p. 315, A.L. 1969 H.B. 457, A.L. 1977 H.B. 841)

Prior revision: 1929 § 8100

Effective 1-1-78