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Missouri Minimum Wage News: The Records

January 22nd, 2007 Posted by Mark

Where were we? Oh, yes, talking about all of the changes that the voters of Missouri brought upon the way that minimum wage is paid in the state, as well as upon some of the other responsibilities between employee and employer. As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, one of the ways that this relationship has changed due to the new labor law is in the way that employers have to keep records on their employees.

Of course, this is not to say that you aren’t, or shouldn’t be, keeping records of your employers. Employment applications, resumes, drug screening permission testing forms, reference forms, and other human resource forms should be stored somewhere in your headquarters for each and every one of your employers, past, present, and future. We’ve gone over the whole organization thing, and how much better an operation a little order can make your company and your human resource department.

What is different in Missouri now, however, is the fact that keeping certain information, and then providing it to the proper authorities, is now mandatory for at least the next three years. For instance, the Prop B law passed by Missouri voters last fall requires that all employers keep a record of an employee’s name, address, and job description, as well as info on the rate of pay, the number of hours worked per pay period, and the total money then earned by that employee during the pay period—for each and every employee, and for each and every work week.

You must have these records on your site for at least three years, and they must be available for a checkup anytime the Director of the Department of Labor or any of his inspectors wants to take a peek. Of course, any records that the state does look at will be kept confidential.