290.110. Payment due discharged employee--exceptions--penalty for delay. - Missouri Statutes

Payment due discharged employee--exceptions--penalty for delay.

290.110. Whenever any person, firm or corporation doingbusiness in this state shall discharge, with or without cause, orrefuse to further employ any servant or employee thereof, theunpaid wages of the servant or employee then earned at thecontract rate, without abatement or deduction, shall be andbecome due and payable on the day of the discharge or refusal tolonger employ and the servant or employee may request in writingof his foreman or the keeper of his time to have the money duehim, or a valid check therefor, sent to any station or officewhere a regular agent is kept; and if the money or a valid checktherefor, does not reach the station or office within seven daysfrom the date it is so requested, then as a penalty for suchnonpayment the wages of the servant or employee shall continuefrom the date of the discharge or refusal to further employ, atthe same rate until paid; provided, such wages shall not continuemore than sixty days. This section shall not apply in the caseof an employee whose remuneration for work is based primarily oncommissions and whose duties include collection of accounts, careof a stock or merchandise and similar activities and where anaudit is necessary or customary in order to determine the netamount due.

(RSMo 1939 § 5082, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 76, A.L. 1963 p. 414, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1203)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 4610; 1919 § 9804