290.507. Agriculture, law not applicable. - Missouri Statutes

Agriculture, law not applicable.

290.507. Sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall not apply to any employee oremployer engaged in agriculture, as defined in section 290.500 (A) if suchemployee is employed by an employer who did not, during any calendar quarterduring the preceding calendar year, use more than five hundred man-days ofagriculture labor, (B) if such employee is the parent, spouse, child, or othermember of his employer's immediate family, (C) if such employee (i) isemployed as a hand harvest laborer and is paid on a piece rate basis in anoperation which has been, and is customarily and generally recognized ashaving been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment, (ii)commutes daily from his permanent residence to the farm on which he is soemployed, and (iii) has been employed in agriculture less than thirteen weeksduring the preceding calendar year, (D) if such employee (other than anemployee described in clause (C) of this subsection) (i) is sixteen years ofage or under and is employed as a hand harvest laborer, is paid on a piecerate basis in an operation which has been, and is customarily and generallyrecognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region ofemployment, (ii) is employed on the same farm as his parent or person standingin the place of his parent, and (iii) is paid at the same piece rate asemployees over age sixteen are paid on the same farm, or (E) if such employeeis principally engaged in the range production of livestock.

(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 4, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006)