Section 42 Statutory Provision

• Library: Emp-Emp Law 2000

An employee who is injured on the job can exercise the compensation rights made available under The Workers’ Compensation Law, Chapter 287, RSMo. This leads to concern, especially among non-union employees, about the possibility of discrimination as a result of exercising these rights. To combat retaliatory firing of employees who have exercised their compensation rights, the Missouri General Assembly, in 1973, revised §...