Title 50, Employer And Employee

(a) For purposes of enforcing federal immigration laws, including, if applicable, federal laws relating to the employment of illegal aliens, the legislative body of a municipality or county, or the chief law enforcement officer of the county upon approval by the governing legisla…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person to induce, influence, persuade or engage workers to change from one place to another in this state, or to bring workers of any class or calling into this state to work in any type of labor in this state through or by means of false or decepti…

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of labor and workforce development;(2) “Department” means the department of labor and workforce development;(3) “Employ” or “employment” means any work engaged in for comp…

Upon being served with advance written notification of a plant closing or mass layoff pursuant to § 3(a)(2) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. § 2102), the commissioner of labor and workforce development shall immediately advise the commissioners …

(1) Any employer that, upon request by a prospective employer or a current or former employee, provides truthful, fair and unbiased information about a current or former employee's job performance is presumed to be acting in good faith and is granted a qualified immunity for the …

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Individual taxpayer identification number” means a tax processing number issued by the federal internal revenue service for the purpose of facilitating federal tax reporting by those individuals who are not e…

(a) (a) A private employer may adopt an employment policy that gives preference in hiring to:(1) An honorably discharged veteran;(2) The spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability;(3) The unremarried widow or widower of a veteran who died of a service-connected disab…

(a) An employer, as defined in § 50-1-304, shall not require an employee, as defined in § 50-1-304, or a prospective employee to execute or renew a nondisclosure agreement with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace as a condition of employment. (b) Any employee injured as…

An employer, as defined in § 50-1-304, shall not require a physician, or a prospectively employed physician, to disclose participation in a physician wellness program, as defined in § 63-1-173, as a condition of employment or continued employment.

An employer, as defined in § 50-1-304, shall not require an independent contractor, or a prospective independent contractor, who is licensed pursuant to title 63, chapter 6 or 9, to disclose participation in a physician wellness program, as defined in § 63-1-173.

This part is known and may be cited as the “Voluntary Portable Benefit Act.”

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Benefit plan” includes:(A) Health insurance;(B) Income replacement insurance;(C) Life insurance;(D) Retirement benefits; and(E) Other benefits that may customarily be provided as part of a benefit plan;(2) “Employee” means an individual who performs …

(a) An individual or entity, including a hiring party, whether public or private, an independent contractor, or an internet or application-based company, may voluntarily contribute funds to a portable benefit account for an independent contractor. (b) Contributions to a portable …

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Employee” means a person, whether appointed, under contract, or hired at-will or on an hourly basis, where an employee-employer relationship is established, who provides services for an employer for which compensation is paid regardless of whether…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Compensation” means a salary, fee, payment, reimbursement, or other valuable consideration, or combination thereof, whether received or to be received;(2) “Demonstration” means a public gathering of one (1) or more demonstrators protesting against so…

(1) Notwithstanding a law to the contrary, a person who provides compensation to a demonstrator in exchange for the demonstrator's participation in a demonstration may be vicariously liable for damages caused by the demonstrator if the demonstrator's conduct, while participating …

(a) Whenever the attorney general and reporter has reason to believe that a person who has provided compensation to a demonstrator may be vicariously liable for the demonstrator's conduct under § 50-1-1202 and that proceedings would be in the public interest, the attorney general…

This part does not prohibit an individual from seeking damages under § 29-34-218.

It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind to deny or attempt to deny employment to any person by reason of the person's membership in, affiliation with, resignation from, or refusal to join or affiliate with any labor union or employee organizati…

It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind to enter into any contract, combination or agreement, written or oral, providing for exclusion from employment of any person because of membership in, affiliation with, resignation from, or refusal to joi…

It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind to exclude from employment any person by reason of the person's payment of or failure to pay dues, fees, assessments or other charges to any labor union or employee organization of any kind.

It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind operating in this state to execute an agreement with a union or employee organization of any kind that includes a maintenance of membership clause prohibiting employees from withdrawing from a union or em…

(a) Any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind violating any of the provisions of this part commits a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Each day that any person, firm, corporation or association of any kind remains in violation of this part is deemed to be a separate and dis…

(a) It is the public policy of this state that employees of this state have the right to:(1) Employment without regard to any person’s refusal to join or affiliate with, or decision to withdraw from or cease membership in, any labor union or employee organization of any kind;(2) …

(a) For purposes of this section:(1) “Employee” means a natural person who performs services for an employer for valuable consideration, and does not include a self-employed independent contractor;(2) “Employer” means a person, association, or legal or commercial entity receiving…

(a) Notwithstanding any voluntary agreement entered into between the United States department of labor and a franchisee, neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for any purpose. (b) For purposes of this section “franchi…

(a) This section shall be known as “The Essential Workers Act.” (b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a local governmental entity or the executive head of a local government shall not, by executive order, ordinance, or resolution, create categories or classes of nonessenti…

(a) In determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced after the termination of an employment or business relationship, a court shall apply the rebuttable presumptions established in this section. A court shall presume that a time restraint …

(a) Notwithstanding a law to the contrary, an employer shall not require, request, or enforce a noncompete agreement against an employee whose annualized compensation is less than seventy thousand dollars ($70,000). (b) As used in this section:(1) “Annualized compensation” means …

(a) All persons employing female employees in any manufacturing or mercantile establishment shall provide separate privies or water closets for the female employees. (b) No male person shall enter the separate privies or water closets except for the purpose of repairing or cleani…

(a) It is unlawful for any employer, or agent, clerk or superintendent of the employer, to dictate or in any manner interfere with any employee or laborer in the employee's or laborer's rights to select the employee's or laborer's own family physician. (b) It is unlawful for any …

In all cases where an employee or employees ceases work for any employer, whether the severance is voluntary on the part of the employee or whether the employee is lawfully discharged, the employee or employees shall within a reasonable time thereafter withdraw from the premises …

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Employee” includes, but is not limited to:(A) A person employed by the state or any municipality, county, department, board, commission, agency, instrumentality, political subdivision or any other entity of the state;(B) A person employed by a pri…

(a) As used in this section, “employer” means a person or entity that employs one (1) or more employees and includes the state and its political subdivisions. (b) An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for t…

(a) As used in this section, “medical information” includes lists of employees or family members receiving health insurance. “Medical information” does not include information that does not identify the patient. (b) It is unlawful for any employer, or an agent, contractor or empl…

(a) No employer shall terminate an employee who is a volunteer firefighter solely because the employee, when acting as a volunteer firefighter, is absent or late to the employee's employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the time the employee is to report to employ…

Notwithstanding any other law, any employer, including, but not limited to, state and local government employers, that offers health insurance regulated under title 56 to its employees, may provide a payroll deduction for the employee portion of the health insurance premiums on t…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding § 50-1-307, any employee who is an active volunteer firefighter may be permitted to leave work in order to respond to fire calls during the employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave or earned overtime accumulatio…

(a) No teacher employed by a local education agency shall be discharged, terminated, or otherwise discriminated against with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment solely for refusing to participate in, or for refusing to remain silent about, illeg…

(a) As used in this section, “voice stress analysis” means the use of a device that has the ability to electronically analyze the responses of an individual to a specific set of questions and to record the analysis, both digitally and on a graph. (b) At any hearing or other emplo…

(a) For the purposes of this section:(1) “Employee” means a natural person who performs services for an employer for valuable consideration and who possesses a valid handgun carry permit recognized in this state; and(2) “Employer” means a person, association, or legal or commerci…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of labor and workforce development or the commissioner's designee;(2) “Employee” means an individual who performs services for an employer for valuable consideration, and does not include a self-employed indepe…

(a) A public servant who was terminated by the public servant's employer or agent of the employer in violation of § 39-16-506 may bring a cause of action against the employer for unlawful discharge and any other damages to which the employee may be entitled, subject to the limita…

(a) An employer shall grant an eligible employee an absence from work for a period of time equal to four (4) weeks for recovery from surgery related to a living organ donation. If the eligible employee learns of the surgery date for the living organ donation less than thirty (30)…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Employee” means an individual who performs services for a public safety employer for valuable consideration, or on a volunteer basis, and does not include a self-employed independent contractor;(2) “Public safety employer” means an individual or e…

(a) As used in this part, “private pension and retirement plan” means any plan not covered by the federal employee retirement income security program, the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or any other governmentally regulated pension and retirement fund. (b) (1) Any pers…