290.080. Employees paid semimonthly, exception--statement of deductions--violation, misdemeanor. - Missouri Statutes

Employees paid semimonthly, exception--statement ofdeductions--violation, misdemeanor.

290.080. All corporations doing business in this state, andall persons operating railroads or railroad shops in this state,shall pay the wages and salaries of their employees as often assemimonthly, within sixteen days of the close of each payrollperiod; provided, however, that executive, administrative andprofessional employees, and sales people and other employeescompensated in whole or in part on a commission basis, at theoption of such employers, may be paid their salaries orcommissions monthly. Such corporations and persons either as apart of the check, draft or other voucher paying the wages orseparately, shall furnish the employee at least once a month astatement showing the total amount of deductions for the period.Any corporation or person violating this section shall be deemedguilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall befined in any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than fivehundred dollars, for each offense.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 5080, 5081, 10176, A. 1949 S.B. 1105, A.L. 1955 p. 596)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 4608, 4609, 13215; 1919 §§ 9802, 9803, 6778; 1909 § 7820

CROSS REFERENCE:

Wages, when to be paid, interest, priority, RSMo 430.360