Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 320
Fire Protection
←320.333
Section 320.336.1
320.339→
August 28, 2015
Termination from employment prohibited, when--loss of pay permitted, when--written verification of service permitted--employer notification requirements.
320.336. 1. No public or private employer shall terminate an employee
for joining any fire department or fire protection district, including but not
limited to any municipal, volunteer, rural, or subscription fire department or
organization or any volunteer fire protection association, as a volunteer
firefighter, or the Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task
Force One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team, or being activated to a national
disaster response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
2. No public or private employer shall terminate an employee who is a
volunteer firefighter, a member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance
Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team because the
employee, when acting as a volunteer firefighter, or as a member of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, Urban Search and
Rescue Team, or FEMA is absent from or late to his or her employment in order
to respond to an emergency before the time the employee is to report to his or
her place of employment.
3. An employer may charge against the employee's regular pay any
employment time lost by an employee who is a volunteer firefighter, or a
member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force
One, Urban Search and Rescue Team, or FEMA because of the employee's response
to an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties as a volunteer
firefighter, or a member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team,
Missouri Task Force One, Urban Search and Rescue Team, or FEMA.
4. In the case of an employee who is a volunteer firefighter, or a
member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force
One, Urban Search and Rescue Team, or FEMA and who loses time from his or her
employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his
or her duties as a volunteer firefighter, or a member of Missouri-1 Disaster
Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, Urban Search and Rescue
Team, or FEMA, the employer has the right to request the employee to provide
the employer with a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor
of the volunteer fire department or the commander of Missouri-1 Disaster
Medical Assistance Team or the FEMA supervisor stating that the employee
responded to an emergency and stating the time and date of the emergency.
5. An employee who is a volunteer firefighter, or a member of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, Urban Search and
Rescue Team, or FEMA and who may be absent from or late to his or her
employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of performing his
or her duties as a volunteer firefighter, or a member of Missouri-1 Disaster
Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, Urban Search and Rescue
Team, or FEMA shall make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer
that he or she may be absent or late.
(L. 2007 S.B. 47, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1883)
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2007
320.336. 1. No public or private employer shall terminate an
employee for joining any fire department or fire protection district,
including but not limited to any municipal, volunteer, rural, or
subscription fire department or organization, a volunteer fire protection
association, as a volunteer firefighter, Missouri-1 Disaster Medical
Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team.
2. No public or private employer shall terminate an employee who is a
volunteer firefighter, a member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance
Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team because the
employee, when acting as a volunteer firefighter, a member of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search
and Rescue Team is absent from or late to his or her employment in order to
respond to an emergency before the time the employee is to report to his or
her place of employment.
3. An employer may charge against the employee's regular pay any time
that an employee who is a volunteer firefighter, a member of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search
and Rescue Team loses from employment because of the employee's response to
an emergency in the course of performing his or her duties as a volunteer
firefighter, a member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team,
Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team.
4. In the case of an employee who is a volunteer firefighter, a
member of Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force
One, or Urban Search and Rescue Team and who loses time from his or her
employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of performing
his or her duties as a volunteer firefighter, a member of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or Urban Search
and Rescue Team, the employer has the right to request the employee to
provide the employer with a written statement from the supervisor or acting
supervisor of the volunteer fire department or the commander of Missouri-1
Disaster Medical Assistance Team stating that the employee responded to an
emergency and stating the time and date of the emergency.
5. An employee who is a volunteer firefighter, or a member of
Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or
Urban Search and Rescue Team and who may be absent from or late to his or
her employment in order to respond to an emergency in the course of
performing his or her duties as a volunteer firefighter, or a member of
Missouri-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Missouri Task Force One, or
Urban Search and Rescue Team shall make a reasonable effort to notify his
or her employer that he or she may be absent or late.
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