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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  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.

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

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  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.

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

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  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.

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  TCA § 49-11-904 — Amount of grants

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  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.

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

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  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.

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  TCA § 56-7-1502 — Applicability

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  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.

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  TCA § 50-2-206 — Penalty

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

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  TCA § 49-5-410 — Teachers — Moonlighting

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

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

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  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.

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