Mandatory Sick Leave Repealed in Missouri Month After Voters Approved It

[jwinfield]

The move is a major victory for Missouri's largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers' rights advocates, who had spent years—and millions of dollars—building support for the successful ballot measure that established mandatory paid sick leave for Missouri workers.

The change that voters approved in November, with almost 58 percent of the vote, established mandatory paid sick leave for Missouri workers and called for raising the state's minimum hourly wage to $15 in 2026.

But Republicans who control the Missouri Legislature approved a bill that limited the minimum wage increase and scrapped the paid sick leave requirement.

After signing the repeal, Kehoe, a Republican, described the paid sick leave law as an onerous mandate that imposed burdensome record-keeping.

 

[ORDER_66]

Cacs gon cac...

 

[Tribal Outkast]

So you have to work while sick while also losing your healthcare. Amazing

 

[Da King]

Capitalism

 

[D1renegade]

The Jan 6th insurrectionists had the right energy, but the wrong motivation. It's going to take millions of people in the street to get this government to start truly working for the people.

 

[DonB90]

58%? Who the other 42 that voted no

This should be a cause for a riot.

 

[Loose]

Keep voting republican brehs

 

[blackestofpanthers]

Keep voting republican brehs

“Brehs”

 

[acri1]

If you're black living in Missouri I don't even know why you haven't moved already but I'd get on that

Other than that, it's what they voted for hopefully they like it

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

it’s sick how American capitalism has brainwashed even those who will never gains from it. And then the fact we have this shytty two party system the basically allows for radical and/or draconian legislation is the cherry on top.

 

[Diunx]

 

[Fillerguy]

Democracy

 

[Adonai]

This will attract some sleazeball azz companies to start building plants/factories in Missouri because workers' rights are garbage and the Governor will label this a "win".

I wouldn't be surprised if they moved to a right-to-work state soon and just outright ban unions.

 

[num123]

This is why i can never live in a Red state, full of retards willing to vote people in that want to strip every right and benefit you have.

 

[King Poetic]

I really want to know who voted against it at the polls by economic stats

And ill be shocked if it was the poor worker