Missouri Sick Leave laws & compensation compliance analysis

Missouri Sick Leave: What you need to know

There is no Missouri law that requires private sector employers to provide employees sick leave, paid or unpaid, although many employers do grant it as a popular employee benefit. It is important to remember, however, that if sick leave is promised, an employer may create a legal obligation to grant it. Employers should regularly review statements made in handbooks or elsewhere to ensure that they accurately reflect current policies. If changes are necessary, the policy should be revised and employees notified of the changes.
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Missouri law mandates that full-time state employees receive paid sick leave at the rate of 10 hours per month of work, with no limit on accumulation. For part-time employees, sick leave is accrued on a pro rata schedule.
State employees may take sick leave for sickness or injury, pregnancy, childbirth and recovery, medical, surgical, dental, or optical examination, or where, through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at work would jeopardize the health of others.
Sick leave can also be used in the event of illness to the employee's spouse, children, or other members of the employee's household that requires the employee's personal care and attention (1 CSR 20-5.020).
Public employees who are foster or adoptive parents or adoptive stepparents may use their accrued sick leave, annual leave, or any similar leave granted to biological parents to take time off to arrange for the placement or care of a foster or adopted child. Only an employee who has primary responsibility for the child may take this leave (MO Rev. Stat. Sec. 105.271).
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Missouri Sick Leave Resources

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Forms Paid Time Off (PTO)
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