United States — Tennessee
TCA § 50-2-201 — Part definitions
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This section defines key terms used in this part, including Commissioner, Employ, Employee, Employer, and Wage rate.
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TCA § 50-1-201 — Denial of employment because of affiliation or nonaffiliation with labor union or employee organization
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An employer or other person may not deny or try to deny someone employment because of union membership, affiliation, resignation, or refusal to join a union or employee organization.
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TCA § 50-5-105 — Employment of minors sixteen or seventeen years of age
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Sixteen- and seventeen-year-old minors may work in some jobs, but school-attending minors cannot work during class hours or 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday before a school day unless parental consent rules are followed.
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TCA § 60-1-207 — Employment of personnel
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The oil and gas supervisor must employ all necessary personnel to carry out this chapter, with the board's concurrence.
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TCA § 8-37-308 — Return of contributions made on behalf of terminated CETA employees
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If a CETA employee leaves the program without vesting or unsubsidized employment, the employer contributions made for that employee, plus credited interest, are refundable from the state accumulation fund.
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TCA § 8-36-114 — Satisfaction of claims of employer against retired beneficiary by deduction from monthly benefit
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If a member owes an employer in the retirement system and retires, the debt may be paid from the member’s monthly benefit.
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TCA § 50-6-110 — Injuries not covered — Drug and alcohol testing
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This section denies compensation for injuries or death caused by listed employee misconduct or intoxication/drug use, and it sets drug-testing rules and presumptions.
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TCA § 20-14-101 — Chapter definitions
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This section defines terms used in the chapter, including “course of conduct,” “credible threat of violence,” “employer,” and “unlawful violence.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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