Employers must provide notice of Missouri’s new earned paid sick time (PST) requirements no later than April 15, 2025—ahead of the May 1, 2025, effective date of the state’s new PST law, or Proposition A, passed by voters in November 2024—but much uncertainty surrounds the PST provisions due to a pending legal challenge in the Supreme Court of Missouri and multiple bills in the Missouri General Assembly.

Quick Hits

• Proposition A requires Missouri employers to provide notice by April 15, 2025, summarizing employees’ entitlement to earned paid sick time, starting May 1, 2025.
• The Supreme Court of Missouri is reviewing a legal challenge to Proposition A that seeks to invalidate the law because it allegedly violates the Missouri Constitution.
• The Missouri General Assembly—Missouri’s state legislature—is considering multiple bills that would affect the paid sick time benefits provided under Proposition A, including a bill that would fully repeal the earned paid sick time part of the statute.

Proposition A, which Missouri voters passed via a ballot measure on November 5, 2024, includes a provision that raises the state’s minimum wage as of January 1, 2025, and requires employers to begin providing earned paid sick time (PST) on May 1, 2025. Proposition A also requires employers to provide notice and display a poster summarizing the PST law by April 15, 2025.

On March 12, 2025, the Supreme Court of Missouri heard oral arguments on the legal challenge, which could invalidate...

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