Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 8 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Division 30 - Division of Labor Standards
Chapter 4 - Minimum Wage and Overtime Rules
Section 8 CSR 30-4.020 - Minimum Wage Rates
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule describes the minimum wage rates to be paid to certain qualifying employees, describes generally the allowance of gratuities as a credit toward payment of the minimum wage, and describes how a workweek is calculated.
(1) Subject to the requirements of sections 290.500 to 290.530, RSMo, at least the minimum wage shall be paid for all hours worked, regardless of the frequency of payment and regardless of whether the wage is paid on an hourly, salaried, commissioned, or any other basis. If, in any workweek, the total wages earned by an employee is less than the applicable minimum wage rate for the total hours worked, the employer shall pay the difference between the total wages earned and the amount required to equal the minimum wage for the total hours worked in the workweek as required under the minimum wage law.
(2) The workweek is the seven (7)-day period that is the basis for determining an employee's hourly earnings. Once established, an employer shall not change or manipulate an employee's workweek to evade the requirements of the Missouri Minimum Wage Law.
(3) Hourly wages, tips, gratuities, and commissions are counted in the workweek in which the hourly wage, tip, gratuity, or commission is earned to determine if an employee earned at least the minimum wage rate.
*Original authority: 290.512, RSMo 1990, amended 2006; 290.515, RSMo 1990, amended 2006; and 290.523, RSMo 2008.
