Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Employment law in United States — Tennessee

Employer duties, worker rights, contracts, workplace standards, and labour relations. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

1,857 matching statutes

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 4-3-1402 — Purpose and intent

  1 provisions

  This section states the purpose of the part: to support the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, coordinate workforce-development programs, and promote public-private partnerships, while not expanding contracting services beyond what state law already allows.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 9-4-1105 — Purpose of trust fund — Certification of amount needed to fund increase in employer contribution rate — Use of assets

  1 provisions

  The trust fund’s assets may be used only for the section’s purpose and related administration costs, and trustees may move money only after a certification and best-interests determination.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-1-306 — Authorization of patient to market or sell medical information

  1 provisions

  Employers and their agents, contractors, or employees must not market or sell employee medical information that directly identifies an employee, unless consent or a waiver/release applies.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-1-602 — Notification of employees and state

  1 provisions

  An employer must notify the commissioner of labor and workforce development after telling affected employees about a reduction in operations.

  Notice Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 7-53-102 — Legislative intent and findings — Purposes of chapter — Construction

  1 provisions

  This provision states the legislature’s purposes for creating public corporations to finance property projects and support jobs, agriculture, housing, and pollution control.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 39-17-115 — Knowingly manufacturing, providing, transferring or submitting false identification for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining employment

  1 provisions

  A person must not knowingly make, provide, transfer, or submit false identification to someone else to get or keep employment.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-1-102 — False or deceptive representations in procuring employees — Penalty — Hiring armed guards — Failure to have permit — Penalty

  1 provisions

  This section bans deceptive recruitment of workers and creates penalties, damages, and a permit requirement for hiring armed guards.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 49-5-710 — Sick leave — Accumulation and use

  1 provisions

  Teachers can accrue sick leave, use it for certain maternity, paternity, and adoption leave situations, and local boards must keep and verify sick leave records.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 36-5-2504 — Immunity from civil liability

  1 provisions

  An employer that complies with a qualifying out-of-state income-withholding order is not subject to civil liability for withholding child support from the obligor’s income.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 4-51-310 — Financial practices — Audits of licensees — Post-employment restrictions

  1 provisions

  The board may adopt rules setting minimum control, audit, reporting, confidentiality, anti-cheating, anti-money-laundering, and post-employment requirements for licensees, and each licensee must maintain effective control over its internal fiscal affairs.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 49-11-904 — Amount of grants

  1 provisions

  Grant amounts under this part are capped at $5,000 per employer each calendar year, and total grants under this part cannot exceed $1,000,000 per calendar year.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-6-108 — Right to compensation exclusive

  1 provisions

  Workers covered by this chapter generally have exclusive remedies for injury or death by accident, and an employer who did not secure required compensation cannot use certain negligence-based defenses in those suits.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 56-7-1502 — Applicability

  1 provisions

  This part applies to certain medicare supplement policies and certificates, but it excludes some employer/labor-organization policies and some non-marketed health plans for medicare-eligible persons.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-2-206 — Penalty

  1 provisions

  An employer may not retaliate against an employee for making a complaint or testifying, and violating this part is a Class A misdemeanor.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 49-5-410 — Teachers — Moonlighting

  1 provisions

  Full-time teachers in public education may take paid extra part-time work, within hour limits, if approved by each institution’s governing board.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 4-3-1404 — Purpose and goals of the department

  1 provisions

  The department of labor and workforce development must strive to provide effective employment services and training, and work with other departments and business interests to improve workforce outcomes.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 8-35-213 — Tennessee County Services Association — Tennessee County Highway Officials Association

  1 provisions

  This section makes the Tennessee County Services Association a participating employer and lets the Tennessee County Highway Officials Association join if its board approves the required resolutions and study. Its employees must contribute and participate on the same terms as comparable employees, and the association mu

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 36-5-1102 — Reports of new employees

  1 provisions

  Each employer must give the department a report about each newly hired employee.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 8-34-206 — State assumption of employee contributions

  1 provisions

  The state must assume up to 5% of employee contributions for certain covered public employees, while excluded employees must keep contributing.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 8-38-101 — Chapter definitions

  1 provisions

  This section defines key terms used in the chapter.

  Act or statute Open & Chat