Employment law in United States — Texas | Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Employment law in United States — Texas

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.

4,477 matching statutes

  • United States — Texas

    Health and Safety Code § 592.015

    1 provisions

    An employer, employment agency, or labor organization may not deny equal employment opportunities because of a person's intellectual disability, except in limited cases.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 303.006

    1 provisions

    The commission must include a program-status report in its supplemental annual report, and the annual report must contain specified workforce and funding statistics for the fiscal year.

  • United States — Texas

    Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 129B.001

    1 provisions

    This section defines key terms used in the chapter, including minor, publish, distribute, transactional data, commercial entity, news-gathering organization, and sexual material harmful to minors.

  • United States — Texas

    Government Code § 411.0077

    1 provisions

    Off-duty commissioned officers may attend courses and do outside work if it does not hurt the department, subject to reasonable department access rules.

  • United States — Texas

    Human Resources Code § 40.083

    1 provisions

    Employers may not retaliate against a person who in good faith reports certain criminal conduct or cooperates with related investigations.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1251.352

    1 provisions

    A blanket accident and health insurance policy may be issued to an employer for covered groups tied to specified workplace hazards, and the employer is the policyholder.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 204.084

    1 provisions

    This section lets a successor and predecessor seek transfer of compensation experience for a business acquisition, but only if statutory conditions are met.

  • United States — Texas

    Occupations Code § 2501.001

    1 provisions

    This section defines several terms used in the chapter, including applicant, counselor, employer, fee, job order, owner, person, personnel service, and service file.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 204.044

    1 provisions

    This section defines how an employer’s benefit ratio is calculated and states that it is expressed as a percentage.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 205.002

    1 provisions

    A qualifying nonprofit organization may elect to pay reimbursements instead of contributions, but the election must be made within 45 days after notice and generally lasts at least two calendar years.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 103.005

    1 provisions

    An employer is not required to provide an employment reference for or about a current or former employee.

  • United States — Texas

    Government Code § 437.204

    1 provisions

    An employer may not fire a service member employee for authorized training or duty, and the employee must be allowed back to the same job.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1501.203

    1 provisions

    A small employer health benefit plan issuer may not create separate business classes based on participation requirements, guaranteed issue status, underwriting, proof of insurability, employee/dependent counts, or—except as allowed by Section 1501.202(b)(3)—employees’ trade, occupation, industry, or business type.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 205.031

    1 provisions

    The commission may require certain reimbursing employers to file a commission-approved surety bond.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 103.004

    1 provisions

    An employer is generally immune from civil liability for disclosing certain employee information under Section 103.003, unless the disclosure was known to be false or was made with malice or reckless disregard for truth.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 409.001

    1 provisions

    An employee or someone acting for the employee must notify the employer of an injury within 30 days. For an occupational disease, the 30 days runs from when the employee knew or should have known it may be work-related.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1501.156

    1 provisions

    Small employer health benefit plans must give at least a 31-day initial enrollment period and a 31-day annual open enrollment period.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1501.252

    1 provisions

    A small employer health benefit plan issuer must offer a standard health benefit plan, and must also offer at least one other qualifying health plan to a small employer. It may also offer extra riders or design plans with additional mandatory benefits.

  • United States — Texas

    Government Code § 546.0451

    1 provisions

    The executive commissioner must create rules and a uniform process for assessing employment goals and services, require care-planning use of that process, and submit a biennial report on related employment-services data.