Legal Question in Employment Law in Missouri

It depends. If you can define yourself into a protected class of people (minority, female, disabled, elderly) you may be able to assert discrimination claim. An employer cannot adversely change your employment status (including compensation) based on race, national origin, sex, or disability. If you can slide in under a protected class, you could assert damages in the form of back-pay, front-pay, unlimited punitive damages, and attorneys fees and costs under the Missouri Human Rights Act.

Beyond a discrimination claim, Missouri employers can terminate employment for arbitrary and capricious (which means almost ANY) reason. If you cannot find yourself in a protected class, you would probably have to sue under a contractual theory of breach of oral agreement. And if your bonus would have been over $500.00, you could assert that the company breached the statute of frauds.

This remedy is not a quick fix and would require hiring an attorney.