Section 18 Plaintiff?s Status as an Employee of Defendant

• Library: Employment Discrimination 2008

In Hayes v. Show Me Believers, Inc., 192 S.W.3d 706 (Mo. banc 2006), the Court clarified the first element of a claim for retaliation under § 287.780, RSMo 2000, by eliminating the requirement of showing the plaintiff’s status as an employee
of the defendant before the injury.Instead, the plaintiff only needs to show status as an employee of the defendant at some point in time. In Hayes, the plaintiff alleged that the employer terminated him because he had previously filed a worker’s compensation claim...