2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 290.517. — Learners and apprentices, wage rate, determined by director, how.

290.517. After a public hearing of which individual employees affected must be given reasonable notice, the director shall provide by regulation for the employment in any occupation, at wages lower than the wage rate applicable under sections 290.500 to 290.530, of such learners and apprentices as he finds appropriate to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment. Such wage rate for learners and apprentices shall be the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the prevailing federal subminimum wage applicable to new workers. At no time may this provision be used for the purpose of evading the spirit and meaning of sections 290.500 to 290.530.

(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 8)