By Stephanie Mills-Gallan, Sebastian Chilco, and Lillian Manning on

New statewide paid sick and safe time law would take effect on May 1, 2025. Law would allow employers to limit annual use to either 40 or 56 hours, limit carryover to 80 hours, but is silent on accrual caps. Notice obligations would begin before law takes effect.

In the November 5, 2024 election, Missourians appear to have voted in favor of Proposition A to create a new statewide paid sick and safe time (“paid sick time”) law that would become operative on May 1, 2025 (along with increases to the state minimum wage).¹ Although the results will not be certified by the Missouri Secretary of State until early December,² and notwithstanding various news outlets reporting about potential challenges to the ballot measure’s legality,³ the following highlights some key information about the anticipated law.

Covered Employers & Employees. The law will apply to all employers, though different standards will apply depending on whether an employer has 15 or more, or 14 or fewer (“small employers”), employees in Missouri on the payroll for some portion of a working day in 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding year.

Generally, the law applies to an individual employed in Missouri, but contains numerous exceptions (some of which are more unique among paid sick time laws):

• Individuals who are not employees and are voluntarily engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable,...

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