From and after the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the period of eight hours shall be and constitute a legal day's work; but nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent parties to any contract for work, services or labor from agreeing upon a longer or shorter time. This section shall not apply to persons hired or employed by the month, nor to laborers or farm hands in the service of farmers or others engaged in agriculture.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.010
What constitutes a day's labor
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case In re Fedex Ground Package System, Inc. (2008)
Most recently applied in Wells v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc. (September 2013)
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 10166); Prior revisions: 1929 § 13205; 1919 § 6766; 1909 § 7812
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.