| Right-to-disconnect law | No statewide law |
| Electronic monitoring disclosure | Federal floor only |
| Expense reimbursement mandatory | Permissive (FLSA floor) |
| State personal income tax | Yes (4.95% top rate) |
Missouri has no right-to-disconnect statute. None enacted by the Missouri General Assembly.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 542.402 is a one-party consent statute for recording communications. Employer call monitoring where any participant consents is lawful. No general electronic-monitoring notice statute applies.
Missouri has no remote-work reimbursement mandate beyond the federal FLSA minimum-wage kickback floor.
Missouri starts from federal AGI and does not restore the suspended W-2 unreimbursed-employee-business-expense deduction. The St. Louis (Form E-1) and Kansas City (Form RD-109) 1% earnings taxes apply to compensation earned while physically working inside the city — fully remote nonresidents typically owe no city earnings tax and can file for a refund of withheld amounts, but the cities tightened nonresident refund rules in recent years; confirm current refund policy.
State top marginal rate is 4.95%. Critically for remote workers, both St. Louis and Kansas City impose a 1% local earnings tax on residents and on nonresidents earning wages from work performed within the city — a remote worker who lives or telecommutes into either city should confirm earnings-tax exposure with the city collector of revenue.
At-will employment: Missouri is an at-will employment state with limited public-policy and statutory exceptions.
Missouri remote-work activity concentrates in St. Louis and adjacent metros, with Centene, Edward Jones, Cerner (Oracle Health) among the larger remote-friendly headquarters. State-level BLS Telework Supplement micro-data was not retrievable at verification time; the national figure (~19-23% any-telework) is the closest available baseline.
Top remote-hub metro: St. Louis
Notable remote-work employers headquartered in Missouri:
Our sister site CeoCult covers the federal + Missouri home-office tax deduction methodology in detail, including IRS Form 8829, the simplified $5/sq ft method, and the state-specific quirks for Missouri filers.
No Missouri statute requires it. Federal FLSA only requires reimbursement to the extent unreimbursed costs would drop wages below the minimum wage.
Yes on employer-owned systems. Missouri has no electronic-monitoring notice statute, and voice calls are governed by the one-party consent rule in § 542.402.
Flat stipends are taxable wages for state income tax and may also be subject to the 1% earnings tax if you live in or work into St. Louis or Kansas City. Accountable-plan reimbursements are excluded from federal AGI and flow through as non-income in Missouri.
No. None enacted.