By Samantha Walker
KOAM TV, Joplin, MO, May 5, 2025

Just days after Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave mandate went into effect, state lawmakers are advancing legislation that would substantially change the law that voters passed in November. ...

Supporters of Proposition A express frustration with these legislative efforts to modify what voters approved.

"I would like to see it just go into place and be a sign of progress. That at least something in the Missouri democratic system still works," said Mike Draper, a member of Missouri Business for a Fair Minimum Wage...

Op-Ed By Michael Schroeder
Kansas City Star, May 3, 2025. Also Yahoo News

The implementation of Proposition A’s paid sick leave on May 1 marked an important step forward for Missouri businesses and workers. Businesses should see paid sick leave not as a burden, but as an investment in the well-being of our workforce and the vitality of our businesses and economy. That has been my experience as owner of Oddly Correct Coffee in Kansas City.

We employ 20 people. We know from experience that a business model with fair pay and paid sick leave...

By Mike Cullinan
Springfield Business Journal, May 2, 2025

Mandatory paid sick leave took effect May 1 at Missouri businesses after the state Supreme Court ruled that election results are valid for Proposition A. ...

Laurie Knowlton, who owns Rountree neighborhood business Pickwick Underground Framing LLC, said via email she was “thrilled” with the Supreme Court decision. She is among roughly 500 businesses statewide that supported Proposition A as part of Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy, a coalition of business leaders and executives.

“I was an early supporter of Proposition A because I value...

By Mitchell Kaminski
KMIZ-TV (ABC 17), Columbia, April 29, 2025

Supporters of a voter-passed proposition rejoiced after a court's decision on Tuesday. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, which raised the state’s minimum wage and requires employers to offer paid sick leave, rejecting arguments from business groups that the ballot measure was misleading and unconstitutional. ...

Supporters say the measure is a victory for working Missourians and small businesses alike. ...

Mike Draper, owner of RAYGUN, a Kansas City-based apparel company, welcomed the court’s decision in a statement. 

“The Missouri Supreme...

By Clara Bates, Missouri Independent and Tierney Kugel, Columbia Missourian
Columbia Missourian, April 29, 2025. Also Webster County Citizen

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave set to go into effect Thursday. ...

Proposition A passed with nearly 58% of the vote and had the support of numerous unions, workers’ advocacy groups, social justice and civil rights organizations, as well as over 500 business owners. ...

One proponent of Proposition A is Joseph Chevalier, owner of Yellow Dog Bookshop in Columbia. Yellow Dog Bookshop was one...

By David A. Lieb
AP (Associated Press), April 29, 2025. Also Fortune, US News and World Report, Southeast Missourian, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, KTVI Fox 2 TV (St. Louis), KOAM TV (Joplin), Missouri Reserve, Sioux City Journal, Atlanta Journal Constitution, many more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved ballot measure gradually raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to workers. The court rejected claims from business groups that the initiative’s ballot summary and cost estimate were misleading and thus amounted to an election...

By Kacen Bayless
Kansas City Star, April 29, 2025

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the election results of a November vote that raised the state’s minimum wage and guaranteed paid sick leave to workers, even as state lawmakers push to weaken the voter-approved law. ...

A group of small business owners who have campaigned and argued in favor of Proposition A celebrated the decision in a series of statements on Tuesday. “We’re looking forward to full implementation of the minimum wage increases and paid sick time,” said Michael Schroeder, who owns Oddly Correct...

By Jack Suntrup
St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 29, 2025. Also The Examiner (Independence - Blue Springs - Grain Valley, MO)

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved law to raise the minimum wage and require paid sick leave, allowing new sick time rules to take effect Thursday. ...

Business owners who supported Proposition A, meanwhile, cheered the court’s Tuesday opinion.

“If a small bookstore like ours can provide paid sick time to employees, so can other businesses. No one should have to work sick in order to keep a roof overhead and...

By Matthew Sanders
KMIZ-TV (ABC 17), Columbia, April 29, 2025

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved law that increases the minimum wage and requires employers to provide paid leave. ...

Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy, a business group that supported Proposition A, praised the decision. The group's release quotes Joseph Chevalier, owner of Columbia's Yellow Dog Bookshop.

“If a small bookstore like ours can provide paid sick time to employees, so can other businesses," Chevalier said, according to the release. "No one should have to work sick in order to keep...

By Alisa Nelson
Missourinet, April 29, 2025

The state Supreme Court has ruled today that the wording and cost projections in Proposition A are not misleading or inaccurate. Business groups challenging the minimum wage and paid sick leave law made those arguments, along with others. ... The law raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 and requires employers to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

More than 500 businesses joined the Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy Coalition in 2024, supporting Proposition A. It responded...

By Amber Ruch
KFVS 12 TV, Cape Girardeau, April 29, 2025

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled on whether Proposition A is valid or not. On Tuesday, April 29, the court ruled election results on Prop A are valid, and the paid sick leave portion will go into effect on May 1 as planned. ...

According to the Missouri Business for a Health Economy, a coalition of more than 500 businesses, the court’s decision is welcomed.

They said a group of small business owners filed an amicus brief with the Missouri Supreme Court in March...

By KY3 Staff
KY3 TV Springfield, April 29, 2025

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Proposition A is valid, and the paid sick leave portion will go into effect on May 1.

Proposition A, passed by voters in November, promised one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. The Missouri Chamber of Commerce sued, asking the Missouri Supreme Court to strike down the measure. ...

The Missouri Business for a Health Economy, a coalition of more than 500 businesses, welcomed the court’s decision. They said a group of small business owners filed...

By Savannah Hawley-Bates
KCUR-FM (NPR), Kansas City, April 15, 2025. Also Missouri Business Alert.

Business owners are required to tell their workers about their right to paid sick leave on Tuesday. But a bill in the Missouri legislature and a case in the Missouri Supreme Court could take away the provision, which voters widely approved last fall, before it begins May 1. ...

Mike Schroeder is the owner of Oddly Correct Coffee in Kansas City. He began offering his employees a livable wage and paid sick time in 2019. He said since then Oddly Correct...

By Mercy Austin and Faith Boyd
Columbia Missourian, April 10, 2025. Also KBIA-FM (NPR), Webster County Citizen, Maryville (MO) Forum, Griffon News, Marietta Daily Journal

Fifteen activists gathered at Yellow Dog Bookshop on Thursday to protest a Missouri House bill that would overturn Prop A’s sick leave provision. ... Yellow Dog Bookshop owner Joe Chevalier believes Missouri workers deserve paid sick leave and increased minimum wage.

“I think that a lot of people are, even in the wake of the pandemic, coming to work sick because they’re afraid of losing money, losing hours, maybe losing...

By Chandler Watkins
KCTV 5, Kansas City, April 10, 2025

Last November, Missourians voted in favor of Proposition A, which increased the state’s minimum wage and gives employees earned paid time off. As a house bill that would repeal the earned sick pay portion of the proposition makes its way through the Capitol ... Dozens gathered outside Oddly Correct Coffee at the corner of E 42nd and Troost Thursday afternoon in support of the proposition ...

Missouri Jobs with Justice, Missouri Workers Center, Stand Up KC, business owners, workers, and more rallied outside the coffee...