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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 § 201.022

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  This section expands the meaning of “employer” to include certain buyers or recipients of another employer’s business or workforce.

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  Labor Code § 408.001

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  Workers’ compensation benefits are the exclusive remedy against the employer for a covered employee’s death or work-related injury, but exemplary damages may still be recovered in a qualifying death case.

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  Labor Code § 101.002

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  A person may peacefully and lawfully try to persuade another about employment choices, but trade union or similar members may not enter another person’s premises without consent.

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  Local Government Code § 146.002

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  This section defines “covered employee,” “employee association,” and “public employer” for the chapter.

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  Health and Safety Code § 75.002

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  This section defines key terms used in the chapter, including employee, governing body, local and regional health care program, and small employer.

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  Local Government Code § 143.352

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  This section defines “bargaining agent,” “police employee group,” and “public employer” for this subchapter.

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  Local Government Code § 142.102

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  This section defines “firefighter,” “firefighters association,” and “public employer” for this subchapter.

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  Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 122.003

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  An employer may use this section as a defense if reemployment became impossible or unreasonable because circumstances changed while the employee was serving as a juror or grand juror.

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  Insurance Code § 1501.153

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  Small employers are not required to contribute to premiums, but issuers may require contributions and must apply any contribution level uniformly.

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  Labor Code § 91.0011

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  This section says coemployment is an ongoing arrangement, not a joint employment arrangement, and employer rights and duties are split between the coemployers under their agreement and this chapter.

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  Labor Code § 104.001

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  This section defines “employee” and “employer” for this chapter.

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  Labor Code § 21.402

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  Employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies may not discriminate based on genetic information or a person’s refusal to take a genetic test.

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  Labor Code § 21.111

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  This chapter does not apply to an employer for work involving a person employed outside this state.

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  Labor Code § 105.002

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  An employer may discharge an employee for a qualifying false or misleading statement about military record, and the related employment contract becomes void and unenforceable.

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  Labor Code § 82.001

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  This section defines “employee benefit plan” and “employer” for this chapter.

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  Labor Code § 408.0221

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  The commissioner must prescribe a form for employer-to-doctor job information, and may adopt rules to support this section.

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  Insurance Code § 1501.354

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  Small employer health benefit plan issuers and agents must give reasonable disclosure materials when offering a plan for sale, and issuers must disclose benefits and premiums on request by a small employer.

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  Insurance Code § 1501.155

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  A small employer health benefit plan issuer may use lower participation levels in limited cases, but only if stated waiver and group-acceptance conditions are met, and it must not cover the group when it knows the employer pressured employees to decline coverage.

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  Government Code § 606.021

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  This section defines “employee,” “employment,” and “wages” for this subchapter.

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  Insurance Code § 1131.051

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  This section lets a group life insurance policy be issued to an employer or employer-created trustees, defines who may count as an employee for that policy, and says the employer or trustees are the policyholder.

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