Legislation originally intended to fix a flaw in Missouri’s new minimum wage law that a House committee altered to repeal key voter-approved provisions has been forwarded to the House for debate. House Rules Committee Chairman Shannon Cooper, R-Clinton, had threatened to keep the bill, SB 255, stalled without assurances of support for repealing several provisions that provided raises for tipped workers and that include yearly inflationary adjustments for all minimum wage workers.
Proposition B, which Missourians passed in November with 76 percent support, boosted the state’s standard minimum wage to $6.50 from $5.15 an hour and the wage floor for tipped workers to $3.35 from $2.13 an hour. Backers of the ballot measure, however, also made some inadvertent changes related to overtime pay for police and firefighters, which is what SB 255 sought to correct. If the statutory fix isn’t passed this year, it could end up costing local governments substantially more in overtime pay for police and firefighters.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=4047
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