Missouri republic governor repeals voter-backed law for guaranteed paid sick leave and minimum wage

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...1&cvid=c34be845c9e34d5d89bfa5ec6703c678&ei=33

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) on Thursday signed legislation repealing a voter-approved law that guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and adjusted the minimum wage to inflation.

The law, Proposition A, had been repeatedly challenged by conservative lawmakers and business groups since it passed by a ballot measure in November with almost 58 percent of the vote, with the state Supreme Court upholding it just days before it went into effect in May.

it's moves like this that give me hope for the mid-terms

 

[RobDownSouth]

Overturning a state constitutional amendment on a technicality, that's Missouri MAGA for you!

Proposition A guaranteed paid family leave AND adjusted the minimum wage.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that by law there can only be ONE issue on a state referendum, and FMLA and minimum wage were two separate issues that should have been voted on separately.

The Missouri legislature wasted no time in writing new laws to specifically outlaw both FMLA and min wage increases, now Missouri has to vote on it all over again.

 

[Rebel5soul]

WTG Gov.

 

[RobDownSouth]

WTG Gov.

Octogenarian Obliviot basks in the pain of others.

The one word you'll never read in Ishmael's statistically likely obituary later this year will be "untimely".

 

[Lazaran]

WTG Gov.

Racist5soul (a total POS MAGAt) is celebrating fascist authoritarianism overriding the direct will of the people.

That ^ all tracks.





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[MajorRewrite]

When Republicans lose a vote, they simply block the result of the vote. It’s a form of election fraud.

 

[Pad_Foot]

When Republicans lose a vote, they simply block the result of the vote. It’s a form of election fraud.

The People can’t be trusted!!

Having more people vote would lead to chaos

 

[73Seahawks]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...1&cvid=c34be845c9e34d5d89bfa5ec6703c678&ei=33



it's moves like this that give me hope for the mid-terms

Lucky for him, the Missouri Democratic Party is completely irrelevant and non-existent on the statewide level.

 

[Rebel5soul]

I like the way this thread is going, or not going as it were. Apparently there are still a good number of people here that think legalized theft is still theft.

 

[ll74]

I like the way this thread is going, or not going as it were. Apparently there are still a good number of people here that think legalized theft is still theft.

The employer pays for sick leave and wage. Do employees deserve sick leave or wage minimums?

 

[Rebel5soul]

The employer pays for sick leave and wage. Do employees deserve sick leave or wage minimums?

Get a grip SFB, the employer doesn't pay for a God Damned thing, the customers pay for it all. It's just another frivolous tax in disguise. The governor did exactly the right thing.

 

[ll74]

Get a grip SFB, the employer doesn't pay for a God Damned thing, the customers pay for it all. It's just another frivolous tax in disguise. The governor did exactly the right thing.

The employer makes money off the customer. They pay employees with this money.

Again, do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

 

[HisArpy]

The employer makes money off the customer. They pay employees with this money.

Again, do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

You disguise what actually happened behind statements designed to obscure the facts.

It's not about whether employees "deserve" benefits, it's whether the State has the power to made those benefits mandatory.

No one is saying an employer cannot give employees those benefits.

 

[ll74]

You disguise what actually happened behind statements designed to obscure the facts.

do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

It's not about whether employees "deserve" benefits, it's whether the State has the power to made those benefits mandatory.

It isn't to you

No one is saying an employer cannot give employees those benefits.

Correct. The voters have said that employers are required to do so and the government told them they don't have a say.

Good to see you understand the issue.

 

[Rebel5soul]

The employer makes money off the customer. They pay employees with this money.

Again, do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

It's a fucking tax, PERIOD!!!!!!!

 

[ll74]

It's a fucking tax, PERIOD!!!!!!!

It's literally part of what makes the company work. Just as much as the parts that create the product you buy.

If that's a tax to you, why is your job worth shit?

You fucknng weirdos cry about how people need to work hard to prove themselves, yet somehow don't give a fuck about employees who do the work. Irony.

 

[Rebel5soul]

And as a side note, if it weren't for the ghetto garbage in St. Louis and KC that measure would only have a 30% approval with the public. The only people that would vote for it are the terminally stupid and the independently wealthy.

 

[ll74]

And as a side note, if it weren't for the ghetto garbage in St. Louis and KC

Tell us more about the "ghetto garbage". Can you explain who these people are and why they are garbage? Maybe generalize about them via bigotry?

that measure would only have a 30% approval with the public. The only people that would vote for it are the terminally stupid and the independently wealthy.

Lol...it's fun to decide which people deserve to be heard because of your status.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Get a dictionary and look the words up.

 

[ll74]

Get a dictionary and look the words up.

How are products made? Do employees contribute value into the process? Do you consider their salary a tax on your purchase?

 

[HisArpy]

do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

Stop with the bullshit repetition of stupid.

It isn't to you

Never said that either way. All I did was correct your bullshit.

Correct. The voters have said that employers are required to do so and the government told them they don't have a say.

Great, now do slavery...

Good to see you understand the issue.

I actually do understand it. It's YOU who is the problem here. As usual.

 

[ll74]

Stop with the bullshit repetition of stupid.

Nobody has answered the question.
I'll repeat it until someone does.

do employees deserve sick leave and a minimum amount of pay?

Never said that either way. All I did was correct your bullshit.

So answer the question I asked.

Great, now do slavery...

That's not relevant to American employment.

I actually do understand it. It's YOU who is the problem here. As usual.

So constituents who vote to have a law put in place are overruled by the government and you want that.

Thanks for confirming.

Arpy wants the gov to overrule the will of the people.

 

[dmallord]

@HisArpy rides in to the rescue! Let's recap, dim bulb, cut your bullcrap, and get back to the fundamental premise that citizens voted for it. And their representatives overrode their votes.

Voters in Missouri passed Proposition A in 2024 with nearly 60% support. The measure included both a phased minimum wage increase and guaranteed paid sick leave. Not radical stuff—just basic labor protections already common in other states.

The legislature, dominated by Republicans, overturned it on the grounds that the proposition violated Missouri’s single-subject rule. Technically legal, maybe, but politically tone-deaf. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. When Medicaid expansion passed by a similar margin, lawmakers tried to block funding. When voters raised the minimum wage in 2018, the state blocked cities from going any further.

This pattern raises the same concern each time: if citizen-backed ballot initiatives keep getting tossed out after passage, what’s left of the idea that elected officials are supposed to carry out the will of the people?

Folks can argue over policy all day—minimum wage, sick leave, whatever. But when a majority makes a decision and it gets reversed on a technicality, it’s hard to call that representative government.

As we all know, Arpy is about representative government and should have said so, but didn't. So what does that tell us about people who cannot answer the basic questions asked and remain unanswered?

 

[Comshaw]

Overturning a state constitutional amendment on a technicality, that's Missouri MAGA for you!

Proposition A guaranteed paid family leave AND adjusted the minimum wage.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that by law there can only be ONE issue on a state referendum, and FMLA and minimum wage were two separate issues that should have been voted on separately.

The Missouri legislature wasted no time in writing new laws to specifically outlaw both FMLA and min wage increases, now Missouri has to vote on it all over again.

Sorry dude, but you don't get to bitch about the other side not following the rule of law, then start bitching because it was. Here in my state it's happened a few times because the framers didn't do their due diligence and make sure it would pass muster. Disappointing, yes it was. But it was in those who wrote the damn thing not the court ruling.

Comshaw

 

[HisArpy]

Nobody has answered the question.
I'll repeat it until someone does.

^this is a sign of mental deficiency and fixation.

Face it bub, you fucked yourself. Again.