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Missouri companies sue to stop a law that raises minimum wage and requires paid sick leave

Minimum Wage-Missouri - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Missouri business groups announced Monday that they have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state's minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave.

The powerful Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, restaurant and grocers associations say the law violates a state constitutional requirement that ballot measures only address one issue because it included the minimum wage increase and paid sick leave.

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