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Employment law in United States — Tennessee

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. Every result links to its stored legal text and available official source evidence.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-3-102 — Purpose

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  This section states the purpose of the law: to promote safe and healthful working conditions and supports that purpose by authorizing standards-making, review functions, education, reporting, and enforcement.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 49-9-1405 — Employment agreements

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  Entities described in § 49-9-1402(a) may enter into agreements for services of university employees and employees of other entities.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 3-6-114 — Annual ethics course for lobbyists and employers of lobbyists — Manuals and guides

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  The ethics commission must offer annual ethics courses for lobbyists and employers of lobbyists, and each lobbyist must take one course each year.

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  TCA § 55-50-403 — Employer responsibilities

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  Employers must not knowingly let an employee operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. when certain disqualifying conditions exist, and employers must require applicants to provide the information listed in § 55-50-402(c).

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 8-38-103 — Agreement with federal administrator

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  The state agency may make a Social Security coverage agreement with the commissioner of social security if the governor approves it. The agreement must cover specified state and local government employment, and employers must pay required contributions.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 36-5-1104 — Time frames for reports by employers

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  An employer must make the required report within 20 days after hiring an employee, with a different timing option for magnetic or electronic reporting.

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  TCA § 56-7-133 — Provision in policy of group accident and health insurance requiring notification when person covered under group policy ceases to be covered

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  An employer’s group accident and health insurance policy must require notice to the insurer when a covered person loses eligibility, and the employer must notify the insurer within the contract time limit and no later than 60 days after learning of the loss of eligibility.

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  TCA § 23-2-103 — Lien on action begun before employment

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  An attorney or solicitor hired to prosecute an already-filed suit in a court of record has a lien on the plaintiff’s right of action, if the case record first shows the employment.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-1-503 — Development of model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace — Requirements of policy

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  TACIR must create a model workplace policy on abusive conduct by March 1, 2015, and employers may adopt it.

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  TCA § 50-3-403 — Knowledge of conditions endangering health or safety — Penalty

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  An employer may be fined up to $7,000 for each violation if it knows, or has reason to know, that a workplace condition or practice seriously endangers employees’ health or safety and does not comply with a standard under the chapter.

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  TCA § 71-4-202 — Employment by public agencies

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  Public employers should hire blind, partially blind, and otherwise disabled persons on the same terms as able-bodied workers, unless the disability prevents the work.

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  TCA § 8-36-904 — Requirement to make employee contributions to defined benefit component of the plan — Employer to pick up employee contributions

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  Hybrid plan participants must contribute 5% of earnable compensation, employers must pick up those contributions, and employees cannot take the contributions as cash instead.

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