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 30-4.040 - Subminimum Wage Rates for the Physically or Mentally Impaired

Universal Citation: 8 MO Code of State Regs 30-4.040

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024

PURPOSE: This rule provides for the establishment of subminimum wages to be paid to persons whose earning capacity is reduced due to a physical or mental impairment.

(1) The director may provide for employment at a subminimum wage rate if it is deemed necessary to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment of the physically or mentally impaired.

(2) A public hearing for the purpose of establishing a subminimum wage rate for any occupation may be held by the director on his/her own motion, or at the request of an interested person.

(3) Employees affected by a proposed subminimum wage will be given reasonable notice of the public hearing and will be given the opportunity to submit oral or prepared written testimony concerning, but not limited to, the following:

(A) The need for a subminimum wage rate; and

(B) Recommendations as to the appropriate level of wages to be set as the subminimum wage for the occupation(s) being considered.

(4) Subminimum wage rates that are to be considered by the director will be duly approved by filing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and a subsequent Order of Rulemaking with the secretary of state as provided for state agencies under Chapter 536, RSMo.

*Original authority: 290.515, RSMo 1990, amended 2006 and 290.523, RSMo 2008.

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