Missouri Predictive Scheduling Local Preemption

RSMo 290.528 bars political subdivisions from establishing, mandating, or requiring employers to provide minimum wages or employment benefits beyond state law, and preempts all such local ordinances. Missouri cities and counties therefore cannot adopt fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling ordinances, advance-notice requirements, or premium pay for last-minute schedule changes, and they generally lack home-rule authority to regulate private employment terms. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act continues to govern overtime, and any expansion of scheduling protections must come from the General Assembly. Public employers retain authority to set internal schedules for their own workforces.

Local fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling ordinances are preempted and unenforceable. Employers complying with state and federal law are shielded from local scheduling-related fines or licensing actions.