Quick Hits

• On July 10, 2025, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed HB-567 into law, which repeals the paid sick time statute effective August 28, 2025.
• The Missouri paid sick time statute requires Missouri employers to provide earned paid sick time from May 1, 2025, to August 27, 2025.

Proposition A, which Missouri voters passed via a ballot measure on November 5, 2024, raises the state’s minimum wage as of January 1, 2025, and requires employers to provide earned paid sick time (PST) as of May 1, 2025. HB-567 repeals the paid sick time statute and amends the minimum wage statute to eliminate the cost-of-living increase built into future years.

The Missouri Paid Sick Time Law

As of May 1, 2025, the Missouri Paid Sick Time statute requires most Missouri employers to start providing earned paid sick time to employees working in Missouri. The law exempts employers that are federal, state, or local governments or political subdivisions of the state and excludes some categories of workers, such as volunteers, camp counselors, babysitters, golf caddies, some rail carrier employees, and retail employees of businesses with annual gross volume sales of less than $500,000. The law does not apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that was in effect on November 5, 2024, until the CBA is amended, extended, or renewed.

Under the PST law, Missouri employees can:

• earn one hour of earned paid sick time for every thirty hours worked;
• use PST for an employee’s...

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