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With the blow of a pen, the governor of Missouri, Mike Kehoe, signed the legislation repealing the provision of sick leave of a voting measure that around 58% of Missourian voters approved in November.
The now struck provision, which entered into force in May but will stop at the end of August, required Employers to provide workers for an hour of time of paid disease has won for the 30 hours worked and 56 hours (or only seven days) of sickness time paid per year. Companies of less than 15 employees were to give workers only 40 hours a year.
In a statement Varying how the “conservative direction” supports the “families” of the Missourian, Kehoe described the provision, which would have helped a estimated 728,000 private sector employees in the state, “Oneous”.
In November 2024, the sick leave mandate paid pass With 1.69 million votes – not far away, notes Elizabeth Crisp of The hillFrom the 1.75 million with which Kehoe took the governor in November. Republican legislators take action To go back the will of their voters after the measurement of the measurement of the vote and, in a few months, a bill for the repeal had adopted the state house along the partisan lines.
Republicans of the Senate pass The bill after having used a rare procedural maneuver to cancel a democratic filibuster. The bill obtained the votes of all republican legislators except one, Lincoln Hough, who thought that his republican colleagues should have let the debate follow his course.
“Our rules of this room are unique to promote compromise and push people to negotiate”, said The Springfield Daily Citizen At the time, qualifying the vote as “degradation of the Institution of the Missouri Senate”.
When the Legislative Assembly sent the bill to the Kehoe office, the leader of the Hottage of the Senate Beck said The public radio of St. Louis: “What we have seen today is republican supermajority, that they did it because of the greed of companies or their business suzerains telling them what to do, they have removed the patients for millions of workers in the state of Missouri.”
