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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 § 4-21-407 — Age discrimination

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  This section allows limited age-based employment actions by employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations, and sets exceptions for certain seniority, benefit, firefighter, and law-enforcement hiring/retirement rules.

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  TCA § 8-35-250 — Resolution to discontinue noncontributory provisions of § 8-34-206

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  A qualifying employer’s chief governing body may vote by resolution to stop the noncontributory retirement provisions for future employees, but the resolution must be approved by a two-thirds majority and specify an effective date after at least three months’ notice.

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  TCA § 50-6-405 — Compensation insurance or proof of financial ability required — Self insurers — Payment of premiums — Excess catastrophe reinsurance coverage — Authority and duty of administrator

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  Employers covered by this chapter must insure their workers’ compensation liability or obtain a valid certificate of authority for self-insurance, and the commissioner oversees security, filings, penalties, and related approvals.

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  TCA § 50-6-204 — Medical treatment, attendance and hospitalization — Release of medical records — Reports — Disputes — Reimbursement or payment of expenses — Burial expenses — Physical examinations — Pain management. [Applicable to injuries occurring prior to July 1, 2014.]

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  This section requires employers to provide specified medical treatment and related benefits to injured workers, and sets rules for medical records, provider communication, examinations, travel reimbursement, fee limits, and pain-management handling.

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  TCA § 62-43-110 — Duties of professional employer organization

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  A professional employer organization must keep Tennessee covered employees insured for workers’ compensation and make required notices to the department, clients, and sometimes its carrier.

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  TCA § 50-6-414 — Experience modification factors — Notification of employers — Failure to give timely notification

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  Employers assigned an experience modification factor must receive an annual free copy of available information about that factor.

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  TCA § 56-7-2205 — Distinct grouping — Additional groupings

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  A small employer carrier may establish a distinct grouping only if the health plans meet listed conditions, and it may create no more than two additional groupings based on underwriting criteria. The commissioner may also approve additional distinct groupings if the stated conditions are met.

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  TCA § 50-6-214 — Responsibility for payment of benefits and loss adjustment expenses between insurance carrier and self-insured employer

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  The administrator or the administrator’s designee must order workers’ compensation benefits and loss adjustment expenses to be paid equally by the carrier(s) and the self-insured employer in certain carrier-change situations with a responsibility dispute.

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  TCA § 68-57-102 — Alternative qualifications for employment — Exemption of federal employees

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  Some people may qualify for employment as a surgical technologist if they meet the listed prior experience or training conditions, and qualified surgical technologists must complete annual continuing education and give proof to their employers. Federal government surgical technologists are exempt while doing that job.

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  TCA § 8-37-216 — Employer assumption of employee contributions

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  Employers may pick up required employee contributions in specified circumstances, and employees cannot take those contributions as cash instead.

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  TCA § 50-3-601 — Temporary variances authorized

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  The commissioner may grant an employer a temporary variance if the employer applies in writing, and the employer must follow the order’s required practices while the variance lasts.

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  TCA § 50-6-201 — Notice of injury

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  Injury notice must be given to the employer promptly, and in some cases within 15 days.

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  TCA § 56-7-2206 — Applicability

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  A health benefit plan is covered by this part when it provides benefits for small employers and meets one of the stated payment or tax-treatment conditions.

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  TCA § 50-1-705 — Posting of list of employers against whom final orders issued

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  The department must post a public list of employers with final orders on its website and send annual reports to each member of the general assembly.

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  TCA § 50-6-417 — Dispute of experience modification factor

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  If an employer disputes its experience modification factor, the insurer must tell the employer that it can request review and appeal to the commissioner of commerce and insurance.

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  TCA § 50-3-603 — Temporary variances — Grounds

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  A temporary variance can be issued only if the employer proves certain conditions.

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  TCA § 50-1-311 — Employer prohibited from using results of voice stress analysis to prove misconduct by employee

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  An employer may not use voice stress analysis results to prove employee misconduct in a hearing or other employment procedure where the employee is entitled to due process.

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  TCA § 50-1-108 — Non-disclosure agreement with respect to sexual harassment in workplace as condition of employment prohibited

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  An employer may not require an employee or prospective employee to sign or renew a nondisclosure agreement about sexual harassment in the workplace as a condition of employment.

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  TCA § 50-1-305 — Breast milk expressing by employees — Break time and place

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  Employers must give employees reasonable unpaid daily break time to express breast milk, and must try to provide a private nearby location, unless doing so would unduly disrupt operations.

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  TCA § 36-5-1107 — Failure to make necessary reports — Penalties

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  Employers can be fined for not making required reports, and employers or employees can also be fined for conspiring to skip or falsify a report.

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