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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.

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• United States — Tennessee

  TCA § 50-6-412 — Penalties for noncompliance with insurance requirements

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  This section lets the administrator investigate employers, require proof of workers' compensation coverage, and assess escalating penalties if an employer fails to secure required coverage.

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  TCA § 50-3-105 — Employers' rights and duties

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  Employers must provide safe working conditions, follow safety standards, and not unreasonably interfere with the commissioner’s inspections. Employers also have several listed rights.

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  TCA § 50-3-915 — Compliance with chapter — Relation of chapter to other laws

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  This section says compliance with one safety-and-health law does not excuse noncompliance with the other one, unless the later law repeals it.

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  TCA § 62-43-105 — Chapter or professional employer agreements do not affect collective bargaining agreements, or federal or state labor relations law — Limits on chapter or professional employer agreements — Determination of tax credits and economic incentives

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  This section limits what a professional employer agreement can change and gives clients, covered employees, and professional employer organizations specific rights and responsibilities in co-employment arrangements.

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  TCA § 50-1-312 — Adverse employment action for transporting or storing firearm or ammunition in employer parking area prohibited — Cause of action

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  An employer may not take adverse action against an employee solely for storing or transporting a firearm or ammunition in the employer’s parking area, if done consistently with § 39-17-1313(a).

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  TCA § 4-21-401 — Employer practices

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  Employers may not discriminate in hiring or working conditions based on protected traits, and special rules apply for English-only workplace policies and volunteer rescue squad workers.

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  TCA § 62-43-109 — Professional employer organization deemed employer

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  A professional employer organization is treated as the employer of its covered employees and must handle unemployment premium reporting and payments, client account applications, client-change notices, and bonding rules.

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  TCA § 8-50-112 — Announcement for employment for covered position — Noncovered positions — Criminal history — Definitions

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  Employers must include a criminal-background-check notice for covered positions, may not ask about criminal history on the initial application for noncovered positions, and may ask later.

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  TCA § 8-35-206 — Contributions

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  This section sets how retirement-system contribution rates and related liabilities are calculated and paid, and it requires employers to fund certain liabilities before participation or benefit improvements take effect.

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  TCA § 62-43-108 — Basis of co-employment relationship

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  A professional employer relationship must be based on a written agreement that spells out each party’s responsibilities, notices, pay/tax duties, and liability allocation.

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  TCA § 50-1-1003 — Prohibited actions by employers — Permissible actions

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  Employers may not demand personal social-media or internet account passwords, force contact additions or account access in front of them, or punish workers/applicants for refusing. The section also lists several employer actions that are allowed.

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  TCA § 50-3-913 — Local governments as private employers — Enforcement not affected by notice to develop own program

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  If certain proceedings have already started for a local government treated as a private employer, filing notice that it will develop its own compliance program does not end those proceedings.

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  TCA § 50-7-205 — “Employer” defined

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  This section defines when an employing unit counts as an “employer” for unemployment-compensation purposes.

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  TCA § 50-7-405 — Period, election and termination of employer's coverage

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  This section sets when employer coverage starts, when it can end, and how employers or political subdivisions can elect coverage.

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  TCA § 50-2-110 — Offset of moneys owed by employee to employer

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  An employer may offset employee wages for money the employee owes, but only if the statute’s notice and written-agreement conditions are met. If the employee files a timely sworn affidavit contesting the debt, the employer cannot offset and may instead sue in civil court.

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  TCA § 50-6-114 — Supremacy of chapter — Setoffs for payments by disability plan

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  An employer generally cannot use contracts or other devices to avoid chapter obligations, but may offset certain disability-plan payments against disability benefits if the plan allows it and the employee does not receive less than the chapter would otherwise provide.

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  TCA § 4-21-404 — Training program practices

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  Certain employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, and joint labor-management committees may not discriminate in training, apprenticeship, or related employment materials on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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  TCA § 50-9-113 — State and local government construction contracts

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  Covered construction employers must submit a drug-free workplace affidavit, and noncompliant employers can be barred from future local or state construction contracts.

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  TCA § 40-29-107 — Certificate of employability

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  A person may ask the court for a certificate of employability, but the petition must be filed in the proper circuit court and the petitioner must pay the costs.

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  TCA § 50-7-407 — Continuous part-time employment — “Reimbursing employer” defined

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  If a claimant works part-time for a reimbursing employer and stays employed while separated from other work, eligible benefits paid are not counted as attributable to that employer.

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