Title 50, Employer And Employee

(1) The commissioner, with the advice and aid of the advisory council, and through the appropriate divisions, shall take all appropriate steps to:(1) Reduce and prevent unemployment;(2) Encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational training, retraining a…

(a) (1) The commissioner shall establish and maintain free public employment offices for the Tennessee state employment service in the number and in the places necessary for the proper administration of this chapter, and for the purposes of performing the duties that are within t…

(a) The commissioner of labor and workforce development may appoint an assistant or deputy commissioner for the division of employment security, and may delegate to the person so appointed the responsibility and authority in connection with the administration of this chapter, the…

Any political subdivision of the state may contract for the administration of an unemployment compensation program following the established procedures of the division of employment security required by the terms of this chapter without the necessity of public bidding, as require…

(a) (1) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing the claim, disclose whether or not the individual owes child support obligations as defined under subsection (g).(2) If the individual discloses that the individual owes child supp…

(a) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing the claim, disclose whether or not the individual owes an overissuance, as defined in § 13(c)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. § 2022(c)(1)), of food stamp benefits. The admi…

By July 1, 2012, the department shall implement an internet-based system that allows employers to receive separation notices from the department electronically and to submit separation information electronically to the department. The system shall also have the capability to allo…

(a) (1) (A) Each employing unit shall keep true and accurate work records, for the periods of time and containing the information the commissioner prescribes. The records shall be open to inspection and be subject to being copied by the commissioner or the commissioner's authoriz…

In the discharge of the duties imposed by this part, an unemployment hearing officer, the commissioner, the commissioner’s designee, and any duly authorized representative of any of them shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify to official …

In case of contumacy by or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, any court of this state within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on, or within the jurisdiction of which the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts b…

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records before the commissioner, an unemployment hearing officer, or any duly authorized representative of any of them, or in obedience to the subpoena of…

(a) In the administration of this chapter, the commissioner shall cooperate with the United States department of labor to the fullest extent consistent with this chapter, and shall take action, through the adoption of appropriate rules, regulations, administrative methods and sta…

(a) The commissioner shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter with the individual's wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of othe…

Destruction of records maintained by the division of employment security shall be accomplished pursuant to the terms of title 10, chapter 7, part 3; provided, that the records shall be retained for a period of time at least as long as may be necessary in order to comply with appl…

(a) (1) No agreement by an individual to waive, release or commute the individual's rights to benefits, or any other rights under this chapter, shall be valid.(2) No agreement by any individual in the employ of any person or concern to pay all or any portion of an employer's prem…

(a) It is an offense for any person or entity to knowingly make a false statement or representation or fail to disclose a material fact, to obtain or increase any benefit or other payment under this chapter, either for the person's own benefit or for the benefit of any other pers…

(a) It is an offense for any person to knowingly make a false statement or representation of a material fact or fail to disclose a material fact with intent to defraud by obtaining or increasing any benefit under the unemployment compensation law of any other state of the United …

(a) Any employing unit, or any officer or agent of an employing unit, or any other person who makes a false statement or representation knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, to prevent or reduce the payment of benefits to any individual entit…

(a) Any person who willfully violates this chapter or any order, rule or regulation under this chapter, the violation of which is made unlawful, or the observance of which is required under the terms of this chapter, and for which a penalty is neither prescribed elsewhere in this…

(a) Any person who, by reason of the nondisclosure or misrepresentation by the person, or by another, of a material fact, irrespective of whether the nondisclosure or misrepresentation was known or fraudulent, has received any sum as benefits under this chapter while any conditio…

(a) (1) All criminal actions for violations of this chapter, or any rules or regulations issued pursuant to this chapter, shall be prosecuted by the district attorney general of the judicial district in which the violation occurs, or the attorney general and reporter, in which ca…

(a) Any person who has received unemployment benefits by knowingly misrepresenting, misstating, or failing to disclose any material fact, or by making a false statement or false representation without a good faith belief as to the correctness of the statement or representation, a…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Works Act of 2012.”

(a) There is hereby established the Tennessee works pilot program to provide job training designed to attract new businesses to the state and to assist in the expansion or retention of existing businesses in this state. (b) The purpose of the Tennessee works pilot program is to:(…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Department” means the department of labor and workforce development;(2) “Dislocated worker” means an individual who:(A) Has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment, including an individual:(i…

(a) The department shall administer the Tennessee works pilot program by awarding reimbursable training grants to privately owned businesses for the purpose of screening for potential employment of new and existing employees in this state. (b) (1) Tennessee works pilot program tr…

(a) The Tennessee works pilot program established under this part shall be funded solely with funds received by the state from the United States department of labor and shall be subject to the availability of such funds and all laws governing the use of the funds. (b) No Tennesse…

The department has authority to adopt rules to effectuate this part. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. The department may also adopt emergency rules as determined t…

On or before January 1, 2014, the department shall report to the commerce and labor committee of the senate and the business and utilities committee of the house of representatives concerning the department's findings and recommendations concerning the Tennessee works pilot progr…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Affected group” means two (2) or more employees designated by an employer to participate in a shared work plan;(2) “Approved plan” means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this part, provisions of this chapter that are applicable to unemployment benefits claimants apply to shared work benefits claimants. (b) An individual who files an initial claim for shared work benefits must be provided, if eligible, a monetar…

This part does not preclude an otherwise eligible claimant from drawing total or partial unemployment benefits when the claimant has exhausted the claimant's shared work benefits.

(a) An employer wishing to participate in a shared work program shall submit a signed written shared work benefits plan to the administrator for approval. (b) The administrator shall approve a shared work benefits plan only if the following criteria are met:(1) The plan:(A) Appli…

(a) The administrator shall approve or reject a plan in writing within thirty (30) days of receipt. (b) Only one (1) plan may be approved for any one (1) employer during a twelve-month period. (c) The reason for rejection is final and non-appealable, but the employer may submit a…

(a) A plan is effective on the date specified in the plan or on a date mutually agreed upon by the employer and the administrator, but no earlier than the date of approval of the plan by the administrator. (b) (1) A plan expires at the end of the twelfth full calendar month after…

(a) (1) The administrator may revoke approval of a plan for good cause.(2) The revocation order must be in writing and specify the date the revocation is effective and the reasons for revocation.(3) Good cause includes failure to comply with the assurances given in the plan, unre…

(a) The employer may modify an operational and approved shared work plan with the agreement of employee representatives if the modification is not substantial and is in conformity with the plan approved by the administrator, but the employer must promptly report the modifications…

(a) An individual is eligible to receive shared work benefits with respect to any week only if, in addition to monetary entitlement, the administrator finds that:(1) During the week, the individual is employed as a member of an affected group under an approved shared work benefit…

(a) The shared work weekly benefit amount is the product of the regular weekly unemployment benefits amount multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least ten percent (10%) in the individual's usual weekly hours of work. (b) An individual may be eligible for shared work be…

(a) If an individual works in the same week for an employer other than the shared work employer, and the individual's combined hours of work for both employers are greater than ninety percent (90%) of the normal hours of work with the shared work employer, then the individual is …

(a) Shared work benefits are charged to the employer's experience rating accounts in the same manner as unemployment benefits are charged under this chapter. (b) Employers liable for payments in lieu of contributions must have shared work benefits attributed to service in their e…

An individual who has received all of the combined unemployment benefits and shared work benefits available in a benefit year is considered an exhaustee for purposes of extended benefits, as provided under § 50-7-305, and, if otherwise eligible under that section, is eligible to …