By Jonathan Shorman
Kansas City Star, August 13, 2024. Also Yahoo News.
Missouri voters will decide in November whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and guarantee paid sick leave for workers. ... The measure will be called Proposition A on the Nov. 5 ballot. ...
“I supported the 2018 minimum wage ballot initiative and since then we have doubled our staff, despite the pandemic,” said Andy Montee, owner of Mokaska Coffee in St. Joseph and a member of Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy, a group backing the proposal. “Thanks to our wages and culture, we have excellent employee retention, teamwork and customer service,” Montee said in a statement. “The inclusion of paid sick days on this new ballot initiative is another important step forward.”