290.100. Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how. - Missouri Statutes

Thirty days' notice of reduction of wages, how.

290.100. Any railway, mining, express, telegraph,manufacturing or other company or corporation doing business inthis state, and desiring to reduce the wages of its employees, orany of them, shall give to the employees to be affected therebythirty days' notice thereof. Such notice may be given by postinga written or printed handbill, specifying the class of employeeswhose wages are to be reduced and the amount of the reduction, ina conspicuous place in or about the shops, station, office, depotor other place where said employees may be at work, or by mailingeach employee a copy of said notice or handbill, and such companyor corporation violating any of the provisions of this sectionshall forfeit and pay each party affected thereby the sum offifty dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the name of theinjured party, with costs, before any court of competentjurisdiction.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 5066, 5067, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 75)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 4590, 4591; 1919 §§ 9782, 9783; 1909 §§ 3022, 3023