Missouri 2025 2025 Regular Session

Missouri Senate Bill SB320 Introduced / Bill

Filed 12/10/2024

                     
FIRST REGULAR SESSION 
SENATE BILL NO. 320 
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY  
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHROER. 
0702S.01I 	KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary  
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 285, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the employer-
employee relationship. 
 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
     Section A.  Chapter 285, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1 
one new section, to be known as section 285.075, to read as 2 
follows:3 
     285.075.  1.  Notwithstanding any voluntary agreement 1 
entered into between the United States Department of Labor 2 
and a franchisee or a franchisor, neither a franchisee nor a  3 
franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of 4 
the franchisor for any purpose, unless the franchisor 5 
exercises direct and immediate control over the hiring, 6 
termination, discipline, and direction of the franchisee's 7 
employees. 8 
     2.  For purposes of this section, the terms 9 
"franchisee" and "franchisor" shall have the same meaning as 10 
in 16 CFR 436.1. 11 
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