Show-Me Republican Super Majority Targeting Sick Leave & Pay Hike

Missouri debate over working rights persist and, from our vantage there aren't any real bad guys here, just opposition points of view about doing biz. 

For instance, critics of Prop A want to add exemptions for small businesses with fewer than 50 employees and that's not something that's totally unreasonable. 

Meanwhile, the reality is that rising inflation & declining social mobility in the U.S. makes it imperative to support a livable wage . . . Nobody can survive on 13.75 an hour . . . Not even eating noodles every day. And 15 bucks per hour isn't even subsistence living. 

With respect to small biz . . . Thanks to rampant inflation amid the Biden years . . . In 2025, no decent person should try to rip off workers by paying less than 15 bucks an hour and offering a measly one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked . . . Again, these are reasonable requests APPROVED BY VOTERS and effort to overturn the will of the electorate has DESERVEDLY evoked criticism. 

Here's the word . . .

“No Missourian should have to choose between a day’s pay and their family’s well-being,” said Caitlyn Adams, executive director of Missouri Jobs with Justice, which led the campaign for the law, in a press release. “Tens of thousands of Missourians who work full-time do not get any paid sick days, but that changes today.”

But while advocates for the policy celebrated Thursday’s milestone, the new law remains at risk of being overturned by the GOP-dominated Missouri legislature.

Republicans have vowed to pass legislation rolling back the paid sick leave and modifying an accompanying boost to the minimum wage. That bill has stalled in the face of Democratic opposition, and the legislative session ends May 16.

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Missouri paid sick leave law takes effect as GOP lawmakers continue efforts to repeal it

The state House passed a bill repealing the sick leave requirements and cut off future minimum wage increases, but opposition remains in the Senate.