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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

  Insurance Code § 1251.053

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  A group accident and health insurance policy may be issued to trustees of certain employer, union, or association funds, and those trustees are the policyholder.

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  Labor Code § 406.004

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  An employer without workers' compensation coverage must notify the division in writing, as required by commissioner rule.

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  Labor Code § 205.013

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  Reimbursing employers must pay the commission specified reimbursement amounts, and the commission must bill them each calendar quarter.

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  Insurance Code § 1501.205

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  Small employer health benefit plan issuers must set premium rates in two steps and may adjust the base rate only with the group’s risk load, which must reflect that group’s risk characteristics.

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  Labor Code § 311.003

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  Certified program agreements must be in writing, limit participant hours, set pay and trust terms, and bar employers from keeping participants just to replace current employees.

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  Labor Code § 409.005

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  Employers must report certain workplace injuries or occupational diseases to the insurance carrier, and the carrier must file the report with the division on time.

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  Labor Code § 92.021

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  A temporary common worker employer is treated as the employer of the common workers it provides, and it may hire, reassign, control, direct, and discharge its employees.

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  Health and Safety Code § 250.003

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  Facilities and individual employers generally may not hire applicants or employees who fail the required registry and criminal-history checks, and they must conduct annual registry searches and keep the results on file.

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  Occupations Code § 2501.101

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  Personnel service staff may not engage in listed deceptive or improper referral, advertising, fee-sharing, or file-disclosure practices, and employers or job seekers also may not make false statements or share certain fees.

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  Labor Code § 206.005

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  If an employing unit stops being an employer and later becomes an employer again, it is treated as a new employer.

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  Insurance Code § 1355.007

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  An issuer of a group health benefit plan to a small employer must offer the Section 1355.004 coverage to the employer, unless the employer rejects it.

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  Labor Code § 21.1065

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  Employers may not allow sexual harassment of unpaid interns and must take immediate, appropriate corrective action when they know or should know it is happening.

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  Labor Code § 307.002

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  The executive director and local government bodies may make agreements to establish and maintain public employment offices, and a certified local workforce board must provide employment services in its area.

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  Labor Code § 308.005

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  The commission must adopt rules and develop guidelines for approving employer training courses, and it may create incentives for employers to hire successful trainees.

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  Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 81.003

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  Employers and former employers of mental health services providers can be liable for damages to patients or former patients if specified failures about sexual exploitation occur.

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  Family Code § 154.187

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  Employers must enroll eligible children in health or dental coverage, send required notices, and handle premium withholding when this section applies.

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  Labor Code § 413.022

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  This section creates a return-to-work reimbursement program for eligible employers, with rules set by the commissioner and administered through the division.

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  Labor Code § 201.028

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  This section expands the meaning of “employer” for farm and ranch labor and limits when an employer is treated as an employer for wages tied to services by certain listed workers.

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  Labor Code § 21.142

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  An employer commits an unlawful employment practice if an employee is sexually harassed and the employer knows or should know about it but does not take immediate and appropriate corrective action.

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  Family Code § 159.503

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  If an employer receives two or more income-withholding orders for the same obligor, the employer satisfies the orders by following the law of the obligor’s principal place of employment for priority and allocation.

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