Missouri requires employers to provide thirty-minute meal breaks and establishes fines for violations

Employers in Missouri must provide employees with a meal break of at least thirty consecutive minutes for every eight-hour shift and prohibit employees from working longer than five and one-half hours without a break, subject to specific exemptions and collective-bargaining agreements.

The measure establishes mandatory rest intervals during work shifts for employees across the state and introduces financial penalties ranging from three hundred dollars to one thousand two hundred dollars for employers who violate the requirements.