Employment law in United States — Texas | Esheria Regulatory Atlas

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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.

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  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 52.051

    1 provisions

    An employer may not punish an employee for complying with a valid subpoena. A discharged employee may have a right to return to the same job if they give prompt notice after release.

  • United States — Texas

    Family Code § 8.207

    1 provisions

    An employer with multiple withholding orders for the same obligor must withhold the combined amounts, unless the total exceeds the Section 8.106 limit.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 846.206

    1 provisions

    A multiple employer welfare arrangement must renew a health benefit plan at the employer’s option, unless one of the listed exceptions applies. It may also refuse renewal of an employee’s or dependent’s coverage for fraud or intentional misrepresentation, and it may not cancel plans or coverage except for those specifi

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 91.061

    1 provisions

    A person may not perform or hold out as a licensed professional employer organization without the required license, use protected PEO-style names unless licensed, misrepresent another person's license, submit false or forged evidence to the department, or use an expired or revoked license.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 201.024

    1 provisions

    This section expands the definition of “employer” to include an employing unit that has elected to become an employer under specified sections.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1501.0581

    1 provisions

    This section sets rules for health group cooperatives, including who may join, when participation is required or allowed, and what notices, elections, and coverage rules apply.

  • United States — Texas

    Insurance Code § 1501.008

    1 provisions

    This section defines when an eligible employee or dependent is a late enrollee and lists several situations where the person is not treated as one.

  • United States — Texas

    Government Code § 667.008

    1 provisions

    A person with multiple part-time jobs only in legislative agencies may use paid leave from leave balances in all jobs.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 409.011

    1 provisions

    The division must promptly send employers information about injured-worker services, procedures, and employer rights and responsibilities after notice of an injury or death.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 302.0026

    1 provisions

    The commission and local workforce development boards must create an employment services referral program for certain recipients and parents, and the program must refer them to preemployment and postemployment services.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 406.073

    1 provisions

    An eligible employee may agree in writing with the employer on the principal location of employment, and the employer must file that agreement with the division if requested.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 409.004

    1 provisions

    If a claim for compensation is not filed with the division as required, the employer and the employer’s insurance carrier are relieved of liability unless an exception applies.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 62.156

    1 provisions

    An employer is exempt from this chapter for employment of a person serving in prison or confined in a local jail.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 21.102

    1 provisions

    An employer is exempt from unlawful-employment-practice liability for certain pay and employment terms under bona fide seniority, merit, benefit, or production-based systems, subject to age-discrimination limits and other exceptions.

  • United States — Texas

    Government Code § 657.003

    1 provisions

    State agencies must give qualifying individuals a military employment preference, and some qualified veterans get added test-score credits.

  • United States — Texas

    Transportation Code § 451.753

    1 provisions

    This section limits strikes and work stoppages by peace officers, allows meet-and-confer only if the association does not advocate an illegal strike, requires one bargaining arrangement to be selected by the chief executive officer or designee, and requires agreements to be written.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 204.007

    1 provisions

    Certain employers in listed agriculture categories must pay a contribution at the lowest applicable rate.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 415.006

    1 provisions

    An employer generally may not collect from an employee a premium or fee the employer paid to get workers' compensation insurance, except as allowed by Sections 406.123 and 406.144.

  • United States — Texas

    Labor Code § 406.002

    1 provisions

    An employer may choose to obtain workers' compensation insurance coverage, except public employers and as otherwise provided by law.