Title 50, Employer And Employee

(a) A minor who is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years of age may be employed in connection with any gainful occupation that:(1) Does not interfere with the minor's health or well-being;(2) Is not prohibited by subsection (b); or(3) Is not prohibited by § 50-5-106. (1) Does not …

(a) A minor may not be employed in connection with the following:(1) Occupations in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components;(2) Motor vehicle driving occupations;(3) Coal mine occupations;(4) Logging occupa…

(1) This part shall not apply to any minor who:(1) Is employed in housework in the minor's home;(2) Is employed by a parent or guardian in a nonhazardous occupation, as defined by § 50-5-106;(3) Is employed in agricultural work;(4) Is employed in the distribution or sale of newsp…

(a) The commissioner may consider and grant special exemptions submitted in writing by the minor and the minor's parents or guardian from this part if it is found that to do so would be in the best interest of the minor involved, and present no danger to the life, health or safet…

Before any minor may be employed or continue to be employed in connection with any gainful occupation, the employer shall require proof of the age of the minor employee or prospective employee by requiring the minor to provide the employer with a copy of the minor's birth certifi…

(1) The department shall administer and enforce this part. In addition, the department shall:(1) Supply employers of minors with printed copies of the regulations governing the employment and hours of work of minors and occupations prohibited to minors under this part;(2) Inspect…

(1) Employers of minors subject to regulation under this part shall:(1) Make, keep and preserve a separate and independent file record for each minor employed, which shall be kept at the location of the minor's employment and shall include:(A) An employment application;(B) A copy…

(a) (1) Except as provided in § 50-5-103, any employer, who violates this part, or hinders or obstructs the department in administering or enforcing this part, or any parent or guardian who permits a child under the parent's or guardian's control or custody to work in violation o…

Any person who violates § 50-5-106(20) or who violates § 50-5-103 by employing a child in an occupation that would violate § 50-5-106(20) if the child were over fourteen (14) years of age commits a Class C felony.

The commissioner may issue, amend and rescind all rules, regulations and procedures necessary to effectuate the purpose of this part.

A minor must have a thirty-minute unpaid break or meal period if scheduled to work six (6) hours consecutively. This break shall not be scheduled during or before the first hour of scheduled work activity.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Protection of Minor Performers Act.”

The general assembly shall have power to amend or repeal all or part of this part at any time and all persons subject to this part shall be governed by the amendment or repeal.

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Artistic or creative services” means, but is not limited to, services as an actor, actress, dancer, musician, comedian, vocalist, including demonstration recordings, stunt-person, voice-over artist, model, or ot…

This part does not repeal or affect the rights or powers under title 29, chapter 31, regarding the removal of disability of minors, and all provisions of that chapter shall remain in force and effect and applicable to the appropriate circumstances addressed in that chapter.

(1) Approval of a contract pursuant to this part shall not:(1) Exempt any person from any other law with respect to licenses, consents, or authorizations required for any conduct, employment, use, or exhibition of the minor in this state, nor limit in any manner the discretion of…

The chapters of this title shall apply to every minor person who desires to perform artistic or creative services in the state, including minor persons who reside in the state and minor persons not residing in the state, as long as some or all of the services are to be provided o…

If a contract is approved by the appropriate court pursuant to this part, then the minor may not, either during minority or after reaching majority, disaffirm the contract on the ground of minority, nor may the minor assert that the minor's parent or guardian lacked the authority…

Application for an order pursuant to this part may be made by the minor, or the minor's parent, or legal guardian, or guardian ad litem appointed pursuant to this part. For the purposes of any proceeding under this part, a parent or legal guardian, as the case may be, entitled to…

(a) Approval under this part may be sought for a contract or agreement that is fully executed, is already in existence or under which the parties are currently performing. Approval may be effective as of the date upon which the contract has been executed, or the date when service…

Petition for contract approval under this part shall be filed with and, when granted, approved by the court handling probate matters for the county in which the minor resides, where the minor is employed or where the minor performs or renders the minor's services, or intends to d…

After a petition is filed pursuant to § 50-5-208, and following reasonable notice to all parties to the contract as is fixed by the court, the court will provide all parties to the contract with the opportunity to appear and be heard. The court may approve the contract following …

Court approval of a valid contract shall serve to bind the minor as if the minor executed the contract personally as an adult; and the minor shall be bound to all provisions including the permanent sale of intellectual property rights; provided, however, that the revocation of ap…

Contracts eligible for approval under this part shall include contracts pursuant to which a minor person is employed, employs, or agrees to perform or render artistic or creative services, either directly or through a third party including, without limitation, a personal services…

(a) Modifications, amendments, or assignments of contracts previously approved by the court are deemed a new contract and require separate approval under this part. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), this section does not require court approval if the employing company assigns i…

(a) At any time after the filing of the petition, the court in its discretion may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the interests of the minor or to oversee the minor's earnings related to the contract approved under this part. The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem a…

(a) A parent, guardian, or legal custodian entitled to the physical custody, care, and control of a minor who enters into a contract of a type described in this part shall provide a certified copy of the minor's birth certificate indicating the minor's minority to the other party…

(1) The following persons, other than one who is the petitioner or who joins in the petition, shall be served with the petition by formal notice, as prescribed by Rule 4 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure:(1) The minor;(2) The minor's legal custodian or guardian ad litem, …

At the court's discretion, the hearing may be held in the court's chambers or courtroom. The proceeding shall be of record and may be sealed, if the court determines that sealing the record will be in the best interests of the minor.

The minor, unless excused by the court for good cause shown, shall attend personally before the court upon the hearing of the petition.

(a) The court at the hearing or on an adjournment of the hearing, may by its order do any of the following:(1) Approve or disapprove the contract or proposed contract;(2) Approve the contract upon such conditions, with respect to modification of the terms of the contract or other…

(a) The court shall ensure that any contract it approves contains all the requirements for the rendering of services of the minor and that the petition includes a plan for the protection of earnings under the contract. (b) The court shall consider the following when determining t…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in an order approving a minor's contract as described in this part, the court shall require that fifteen percent (15%) of the minor's gross earnings pursuant to the contract be set aside by the minor's employer in trust and shall be paid t…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Account holder” means a person who has an account or profile to use an online platform;(2) “Content creation” means the act of sharing video content filmed in this state on an online platform in exchange for compensation;(3) “Content creator”:(A) Mea…

(a) A minor is engaged in the work of content creation if the following criteria are met at any time during the previous twelve-month period:(1) At least thirty percent (30%) of a content creator's compensated video content produced within a thirty-day period included the likenes…

(a) A content creator whose video content features a minor who is fourteen (14) years of age or older, but under eighteen (18) years of age, engaged in the work of content creation as described in § 50-5-302(a) shall maintain the following records and retain the records until the…

(a) A content creator shall compensate a minor who is engaged in the work of content creation under § 50-5-302(a) in accordance with this section. The content creator shall set aside gross earnings on the video content that includes the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor …

(a) In addition to the civil action provided in § 50-5-304(c), the minor may commence a civil action against a content creator for injunctive relief or other relief the court finds just and equitable to enforce this part. (b) The powers and remedies provided in this part are cumu…

(a) A waiver or limitation, or a purported waiver or limitation, of a protection or requirement provided under this part is void as unlawful and against public policy. (b) A court, arbitrator, or tribunal shall not enforce or give effect to a waiver or limitation described in sub…

(a) Video content containing the likeness of a minor must be deleted and removed from an online platform by the person who shared the content, the account holder, or another person who has control over the account when the request is made by a minor who is fourteen (14) years of …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person shall not knowingly produce or distribute publicly, including by computer, a visual depiction of a minor with the intent to sexually gratify or elicit a sexual response in the viewer or any other person and benefit financially fr…