SCS HCS HB 1883 -- EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

This bill changes the laws regarding employment practices.  In
its main provisions, the bill:

(1)  Prohibits employers from requiring employees to have
personal identification microchip technology implanted in their
bodies.  Any employer who violates this provision will be guilty
of a class A misdemeanor;

(2)  Specifies that in applying the provisions of the Workers'
Compensation Law it is the intent of the legislature to reject
and abrogate Schoemehl v. Treasurer of the State of Missouri, 217
S.W.3d 900 (Mo. 2007) and all cases citing, interpreting,
applying, or following this case and reaffirms that the right for
compensation for the permanent total disability of an injured
employee terminates on the date of the injured employee's death;

(3)  Re-enacts the federal overtime standards in effect prior to
the passage of Proposition B in 2006 regarding the minimum wage
increase including, but not limited to, the exemptions for
firefighters, commissioned employees, and flex-time pay rate
employees; and

(4)  Prohibits public and private employers from terminating an
employee for being activated to a national disaster response by
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or for being
absent from or late to work due to his or her volunteer emergency
service.  If an employee is absent from or late to work due to
his or her service with FEMA, the employee may lose pay and may
be required to provide a written verification from his or her
supervisor as to the time and date of the emergency.  The member
must make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer that
he or she may be absent from or late to work due to an emergency.

The bill contains an emergency clause for the provisions
regarding the Workers' Compensation Law.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated October 15, 2008 at 3:11 pm