Missouri's governor signs repeal of state's guaranteed paid sick leave law
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Source: The Guardian/AP
Fri 11 Jul 2025 13.09 EDT
Last modified on Fri 11 Jul 2025 13.32 EDT
Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri’s governor, Mike Kehoe, signed the repeal of a law on Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflation-linked adjustments to the minimum wage. The move marked a major victory for the state’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. The repeal will take effect on 28 August.
Kehoe, who also signed a package of tax breaks on Thursday, described the paid sick leave law as an onerous mandate that imposed burdensome record-keeping. “Today, we are protecting the people who make Missouri work – families, job creators and small business owners – by cutting taxes, rolling back overreach and eliminating costly mandates,” Kehoe, a Republican, said in a statement released after a private bill-signing ceremony.
The new tax law excludes capital gains from individual state income taxes, expands tax breaks for seniors and disabled residents, and exempts diapers and feminine hygiene products from sales taxes.
Richard von Glahn, who sponsored the worker benefit ballot initiative, said many parents felt forced to go to work instead of staying home to care for a sick child in order to pay for their rent or utilities. “The governor signing this bill is an absolute betrayal to those families, and it hurts my heart,” said Von Glahn, policy director for Missouri Jobs With Justice.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/missouri-repeal-paid-sick-leave-law
EXCEPT this won't apply to attempting to overturn legal abortions in the state via a do-over of a referendum to toss out the voters' choice in order to impose GOP "overreach" into the healthcare choices of women.
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