Missouri voters passed Proposition A, which will raise the state’s minimum wage and mandate sick leave for all employees.
The current minimum wage of $12.30 an hour will go up next year to $13.75 an hour, then to $15 an hour in 2026. As it is now, Missouri’s minimum wage will also be adjusted each year based on the consumer price index.
Alejandro Gallardo is a restaurant worker in Columbia who helped promote the campaign for Prop A.
“Most workers in the restaurant industry and in a lot of the customer service industries don’t make what the minimum wage would be under this new law,” Gallardo told Missourinet.
The new law, which takes effect January 1, will also require employers with at least 15 employees to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
“I and many other workers in the restaurant industry and across Missouri will no longer have to choose between their financial health and their physical health,” Gallardo said. “We won’t have to come to work sick to make sure we can make ends meet and pay our bills.”
State and local governments, political subdivisions, school districts, and colleges are exempted from the new law.
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