All employers within the state shall, upon request as hereinafter provided, submit to any municipal corporation levying an earnings tax a complete listing of all their employees who reside within...

No list of employees furnished to municipal corporations under the provisions of sections 285.010 to 285.020 shall be used for any purpose other than in connection with the collection of an...

1. Any employer who willfully fails to submit a list of employees as provided in sections 285.010 to 285.020, within thirty days after receiving a written request, is guilty of a misdemeanor and,...

1. The state of Missouri hereby proclaims that no employer who employs illegal aliens shall be eligible for any state-administered or subsidized tax credit, tax abatement or loan from this state....

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly states otherwise, the following terms mean: (1) Commission, the labor and industrial relations commission; (2) Council, the governor's...

1. There is hereby created a Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to be headed by a labor and industrial relations commission as provided by section 49, article IV, Constitution of...

There is hereby created and established a separate department of the state government to be known as The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Such department shall be under the control,...

The term of office of each member of the commission shall be six years except that when first constituted one member shall be appointed for two years, one for four years and one for six years, and...

The commission shall appoint a secretary who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The secretary shall be a citizen and a qualified voter of this state and shall have had at least five...

Each member of the commission, the secretary and each head of a division within the department, before entering upon the person's duties shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation to...

1. It shall be the duty of the labor and industrial relations commission, and it shall have power, jurisdiction and authority: (1) To sue and be sued in its official name; (2) To have and...

A full and complete record of every hearing held by the commission or by any of the divisions within the department shall be kept. All testimony at any such hearing shall be recorded, but need not...

In every appeal coming before the commission from any of the divisions of the department, the commission shall prepare and file a written statement giving the commission's findings of fact and...

The commission and each of the divisions in the department shall keep their central offices in Jefferson City. The board of public buildings, or such agency as may exercise the powers and duties...

There is hereby created within the department the following divisions: (1) The division of workers' compensation; (2) The division of employment security; and (3) The division of labor...

Subject to the supervision of the director of the department of labor and industrial relations, the division of workers' compensation shall be supervised and controlled by a division director who...

1. The director shall compile or supervise the compilation of all statistics and information relating to occupational injuries and illnesses required by and for the use of the United States...

The division of labor standards shall be supervised by a division director who shall be appointed by and report to the director of the department of labor and industrial relations. The division...

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This chapter shall be known as The Workers' Compensation Law. ...

1. The word employee as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean every person in the service of any employer, as defined in this chapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied,...

1. As used in this chapter, the term employee includes a sheriff or deputy sheriff and the term employer includes a county in regard to a sheriff or deputy sheriff. 2. Each county shall...

1. The word employer as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean: (1) Every person, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability partnership or company, trustee, receiver,...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, beginning January 1, 1997, those insurance companies providing coverage pursuant to chapter 287, to a limited liability company, as...

1. Any person who has work done under contract on or about his premises which is an operation of the usual business which he there carries on shall be deemed an employer and shall be liable under...

Every employer and every employee, except as in this chapter otherwise provided, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and respectively to furnish and accept compensation as herein...

1. Any city or county which issues an occupational or business license for a contractor in the construction industry shall require a certificate of insurance for workers' compensation coverage or...

1. An employee shall be conclusively deemed to have been exposed to the hazards of an occupational disease when for any length of time, however short, he is employed in an occupation or process in...

1. In this chapter the term occupational disease is hereby defined to mean, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context, an identifiable disease arising with or without human...

1. This chapter shall not apply to: (1) Employment of farm labor, domestic servants in a private home, including family chauffeurs, or occasional labor performed for and related to a private...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as amending or repealing any statute or ordinance relating to associations or funds for the relief, pension, retirement, or other benefit of firemen,...

1. This chapter shall apply to all cases within its provisions except those exclusively covered by any federal law. 2. This chapter shall apply to all injuries received and occupational diseases...

1. Every employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be liable, irrespective of negligence, to furnish compensation under the provisions of this chapter for personal injury or death...

1. Each insurance carrier writing workers' compensation insurance in this state shall establish a program whereby the carrier shall have available and shall provide to each employer obtaining...

The division of workers' compensation shall establish a toll-free number for employees injured on the job to provide information regarding employees' rights, obligations and benefits under the...

1. Beginning January 1, 1993, all employers shall post a notice at their place of employment, in a sufficient number of places on the premises to assure that such notice will reasonably be seen by...

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to: (1) Knowingly present or cause to be presented any false or fraudulent claim for the payment of benefits pursuant to a workers' compensation claim;...

1. A health care provider commits a fraudulent workers' compensation insurance act if he knowingly and with intent to defraud presents, causes to be presented, or prepares with knowledge or belief...

If the injury or death occurs while the employee is in the joint service of two or more employers, their liability shall be joint and several, and the employee may hold any or all of such...

1. The department of insurance shall establish a program whereby managed care organizations in this state shall be certified by the department for the provision of managed care services to...

1. In addition to all other compensation, the employee shall receive and the employer shall provide such medical, surgical, chiropractic, and hospital treatment, including nursing, custodial,...

1. The purpose of this section is to restore the injured person as soon as possible and as nearly as possible to a condition of self-support and maintenance as an able-bodied worker by physical...

As a guide to the interpretation and application of sections 287.144 to 287.149, sections 287.144 to 287.149 shall not be construed to require the employer to provide vocational rehabilitation to...

As used in sections 287.144 to 287.149, the following words mean: (1) Appropriate vocational testing, appropriate vocational testing may be included when a new job is necessary for...

1. Any person who has met the requirements in section 287.144 for a rehabilitation practitioner shall request in written form certification from the division. The division shall, after confirming...

1. Within one hundred and twenty days of the date of the injury, the employer shall determine whether the injured worker has sustained an injury that results in a loss of suitable, gainful...

1. Temporary total disability or temporary partial disability benefits shall be paid throughout the rehabilitative process. 2. The permanency of the employee's disability under sections 287.170 to...

1. For temporary total disability the employer shall pay compensation for not more than four hundred weeks during the continuance of such disability at the weekly rate of compensation in effect...

1. For temporary partial disability, compensation shall be paid during such disability but not for more than one hundred weeks, and shall be sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the difference...

1. For permanent partial disability, which shall be in addition to compensation for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability paid in accordance with sections 287.170 and 287.180,...

In all claims for compensation for hernia resulting from injury arising out of and in the course of the employment, it must be definitely proved to the satisfaction of the division or the...

1. Losses of hearing due to industrial noise for compensation purposes shall be confined to the frequencies of five hundred, one thousand, and two thousand cycles per second. Loss of hearing...

1. Compensation for permanent total disability shall be paid during the continuance of such disability for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of compensation in effect under this...

Whenever the employer has provided compensation under section 287.170, 287.180 or 287.200, and terminates such compensation, the employer shall notify the employee of such termination and shall...

1. After an employee has received an injury he shall from time to time thereafter during disability submit to reasonable medical examination at the request of the employer, his insurer, the...

No statement in writing made or given by an injured employee, whether taken and transcribed by a stenographer, signed or unsigned by the injured employee, or any statement which is mechanically or...

1. All cases of permanent disability where there has been previous disability shall be compensated as herein provided. Compensation shall be computed on the basis of the average earnings at the...

1. The death of the injured employee shall not affect the liability of the employer to furnish compensation as in this chapter provided, so far as the liability has accrued and become payable at...

If the injury causes death, either with or without disability, the compensation therefor shall be as provided in this section: (1) In all cases the employer shall pay direct to the persons...

The dependent and the employer may, by agreement, enter into a structured settlement which provides for different weekly benefits than provided in section 287.240. Any such settlement must be...

Where an employer has established a cafeteria plan for the employees of the employer in accordance with Section 125 of Title 26 United States Code, no payroll deduction or other reduction in...

1. The compensation payable under this chapter, whether or not it has been awarded or is due, shall not be assignable, shall be exempt from attachment, garnishment, and execution, shall not be...

1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) Provider, any individual, corporation, public or private entity that has entered into an agreement with the state to provide any...

1. Every employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, on either an individual or group basis, insure his entire liability thereunder, except as hereafter provided, with some insurance...

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of section 287.280, every employer who obtains part of his work force from another entity through an employee leasing arrangement, or who employs...

No part of the cost of such insurance shall be assessed against, collected from or paid by any employee. ...

If the employer is not insured his liability hereunder shall be primary and direct. If he is insured his liability shall be secondary and indirect, and his insurer shall be primarily and directly...

1. Every policy of insurance against liability under this chapter shall be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and shall be in a form approved by the director of the department of...

1. There is hereby established the Workers' Compensation Determinations Review Board within the department of insurance which shall exist to review determinations by an insurer or advisory...

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No insurance carrier shall write any insurance against liability hereunder unless it maintains such reserves as are required by law, or in the absence thereof such reserves as may be required by...

Every insurance carrier writing insurance for liability hereunder, or the liability of employers rejecting this chapter, shall report to the director of the insurance division, in accordance with...

For any violation of the provisions of this chapter the director of the insurance division may suspend or revoke the authority of any insurance carrier to do business in this state. If any...

Any employer or group of employers may enter into or continue any agreement with his or their employees to provide a system of compensation benefits or insurance in lieu of the compensation and...

1. Every employer or his insurer in this state, whether he has accepted or rejected the provisions of this chapter, shall within ten days after knowledge of an accident resulting in personal...

1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the parties to claims hereunder from entering into voluntary agreements in settlement thereof, but no agreement by an employee or his...

Upon receipt of notice of any accident for which compensation other than that provided in section 287.140 is payable, the division shall inform the employee generally of his rights under this...

The division shall have and exercise such of the powers and functions of the commission in the administration of the workers' compensation law as the commission may by regulation prescribe;...

No proceedings for compensation under this chapter shall be maintained unless written notice of the time, place and nature of the injury, and the name and address of the person injured, have been...

Except for a claim for recovery filed against the second injury fund, no proceedings for compensation under this chapter shall be maintained unless a claim therefor is filed with the division...

Where recovery is denied to any person in a suit brought at law or in admiralty to recover damages in respect of bodily injury or death on the ground that the person was an employee and the...

If the employer and employee or his dependents do not agree in regard to compensation payable under this chapter, either party may make application for a hearing in regard to the matters at issue...

Upon its own motion or upon the application of any party in interest on the ground of a change in condition, the commission may at any time upon a rehearing after due notice to the parties...

1. If an application for review is made to the commission within twenty days from the date of the award, the full commission, if the first hearing was not held before the full commission, shall...

1. The final award of the commission shall be conclusive and binding unless either party to the dispute shall within thirty days from the date of the final award appeal to the circuit court of the...

1. The final award of the commission shall be conclusive and binding unless either party to the dispute shall, within thirty days from the date of the final award, appeal the award to the...

Any party in interest may file in the circuit court of the county in which the accident occurred, a certified copy of a memorandum of agreement approved by the division or by the commission or of...

Any notice required under this chapter shall be deemed to have been properly given and served when sent by registered or certified mail properly stamped and addressed to the person or entity to...

1. The compensation provided in this chapter may be commuted by the division or the commission and redeemed by the payment in whole or in part, by the employer, of a lump sum which shall be fixed...

On notice to the other parties the commission or court may permit the employer to be discharged from further liability under any agreement, award or judgment for compensation by furnishing to the...

All proceedings before the commission or any commissioner shall be simple, informal and summary, and without regard to the technical rules of evidence, and no defect or irregularity therein shall...

The division, any administrative law judge thereof or the commission, shall have power to issue process, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, examine books and papers, and require the production...

If any party shall die pending any proceedings under this chapter, the same shall not abate, but on notice to the parties may be revived and proceed in favor of the successor to the rights or...

Each person appointed to office of employment by the division shall, before entering upon his duties, take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States,...

1. The division may appoint such number of administrative law judges as it may find necessary, but not exceeding twenty-five in number beginning January 1, 1999, with one additional appointment...

1. The division may appoint or employ such persons as may be necessary to the proper administration of this chapter. All salaries to clerical employees shall be fixed by the division and approved...

It shall be the duty of the attorney general to furnish the division or the commission with such legal services as may be required, and to appear on behalf of the division or the commission in all...

The division and the commission shall prepare and furnish free of charge blank forms of all notices, claims, reports, proofs, and other blank forms and literature which they may deem proper and...

1. The division of workers' compensation shall be provided with offices at the state capital, and St. Louis, St. Joseph, Cape Girardeau, Joplin, Springfield and Kansas City, and in such other...

The division of workers' compensation shall create in each of its area offices a public information program to assist all parties involved with an injury or claim under this chapter. In providing...

1. The division of workers' compensation shall have such powers as may be necessary to carry out all the provisions of this chapter, and it may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary...

1. The division as agent of the department of revenue shall charge and collect the following fees, to be paid at least once each month into the state treasury to the credit of the fund for the...

Every public officer, without exacting a fee or charge therefor, shall furnish the commission or the division, on application, with a certified copy of any document, or part thereof, on file in...

The commission and division shall make and submit to the governor, on or before the first day of February, in each year, a report containing a full and complete account of its transactions and...

1. Prior to December 31, 1993, for the purpose of providing for the expense of administering this chapter and for the purpose set out in subsection 2 of this section, every person, partnership,...

If any such insurance carrier shall fail or refuse to make the return required by this chapter, the said director shall assess the tax against such insurance carrier or self-insurer at the rate...

The director of the division of workers' compensation shall make and submit to the governor, on or before the first day of February, in each year, a report on the expenditures made from the second...

1. For the purpose of providing for revenue for the second injury fund, every authorized self-insurer, and every workers' compensation policyholder insured pursuant to the provisions of this...

If any such insurance carrier shall withdraw from business in this state before the tax shall fall due according to the provisions of this chapter, or shall fail or neglect to pay the tax imposed...

Wherever the employer carries his risk or whatever substitute schemes for insurance provided for in section 287.370 have been approved, the division shall inform the director of the department of...

Any person or persons who shall in this state act or assume to act as agent for any such insurance carrier whose authority to do business in this state has been suspended under this chapter, while...

Whenever by this chapter any officer is required to give any notice to any insurance carrier, the same may be given by mailing the same, postage prepaid, addressed to the principal office of the...

Any insurance carrier, foreign or domestic, liable to pay a tax upon its premiums or deposits under this chapter shall not be liable to pay any other or further tax upon such premiums or deposits...

No employer or agent shall discharge or in any way discriminate against any employee for exercising any of his rights under this chapter. Any employee who has been discharged or discriminated...

Any person, corporation, his or its directors, officers or agents, or any other person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which a penalty has not herein been specifically...

All of the provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed with a view to the public welfare, and a substantial compliance therewith shall be sufficient to give effect to rules,...

1. A change of administrative law judge shall be ordered in any hearing held under this chapter upon the filing of a written application for such change by any party or his agent or attorney. The...

Nothing in sections 536.024, 536.025, 536.037, 536.060, 536.067, 536.073, RSMo, and section 621.045, RSMo, shall be deemed to govern discovery between parties in workers' compensation cases. ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Missouri Employment Security Law. ...

1. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Appeals tribunal means a referee or a body consisting of three referees appointed to conduct hearings and make...

1. After December 31, 1977, employer means: (1) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid for service in employment wages of one...

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 288.034, RSMo, in the case of an individual who is the owner and operator of a motor vehicle which is leased or contracted with driver to a for-hire...

1. Wages means all remuneration, payable or paid, for personal services including commissions and bonuses and, except as provided in subdivision (8) of this section, the cash value of all...

With respect to initial claims filed during calendar years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 and each calendar year thereafter, the maximum weekly benefit amount means four percent of the total wages...

1. A claimant who is unemployed and has been determined to be an insured worker shall be eligible for benefits for any week only if the deputy finds that: (1) The claimant has registered for...

Individuals whose services are not defined as employment pursuant to subsection 8 of section 288.034 or whose services are excluded from the term employment in subdivision (1) or (2) of...

1. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this law, a claimant shall be disqualified for waiting week credit or benefits until after the claimant has earned wages for work insured pursuant to the...

1. All benefits shall be paid through employment offices in accordance with such regulations as the division may prescribe. 2. Each eligible insured worker who is totally unemployed in any week...

1. As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Extended benefit period means a period which begins with the third week after a week for which there is a state...

1. All claims shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the division may prescribe; except that such regulations shall not require the filing of a claim for benefits by the claimant in...

1. Except as provided in subsection 3, any individual, type of organization or employing unit which is or becomes an employer subject to this law within any calendar year shall be subject to this...

1. Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which he is subject to this law. Such contributions shall become due and be paid by each employer to the...

1. (1) The division shall maintain a separate account for each employer which is paying contributions, and shall credit each employer's account with all contributions which each employer has paid....

No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024, RSMo. ...

Any individual, type of organization or employing unit which has acquired substantially all of the business of an employer, excepting in any such case any assets retained by such employer incident...

Each employer's rate for the twelve months commencing January first of any calendar year shall be determined on the basis of the employer's record through the preceding June thirtieth. In the...

USER NOTE: For more generally applicable notes, see notes under the first section of this part, article, heading, chapter or title. [Repealed] ...

1. On each June thirtieth, or within a reasonable time thereafter as may be fixed by regulation, the balance of an employer's experience rating account, except an employer participating in a...

On October first of each calendar year, if the average balance, less any federal advances, of the unemployment compensation trust fund of the four preceding quarters (September thirtieth, June...

The term average annual payroll as used in sections 288.113 to 288.127 means one-third of the total amount of taxable wages paid for insured work during the thirty-six consecutive months' period...

Any employer may make voluntary payments in addition to the contributions required under this law, which shall be credited to his account, in accordance with regulations established by the...

1. If an employer with a positive experience rate account balance is not eligible for a rate calculation after once becoming eligible because the employer did not have twelve consecutive calendar...