Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(a) Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state is authorized to participate in a program of interchange of employees with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal government, or another state, as a sending or receiving agency. (b) Details relating t…

(a) Employees of a sending agency participating in an exchange of personnel as authorized in § 8-50-403 shall be considered during such participation to be on detail to regular work assignments of the sending agency. (b) Employees who are on detail shall be entitled to the same s…

A sending agency in this state may, in accordance with the travel regulations of the state, pay the travel expenses of employees assigned to a receiving agency, but shall not pay the travel expenses of such employees incurred in connection with their work assignments at the recei…

(a) When any unit of government of this state acts as a receiving agency, employees of the sending agency who are assigned under authority of this part may be considered to be on detail to the receiving agency. (b) Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to…

A receiving agency in this state may, in accordance with the travel regulations of the state, pay travel expenses of persons assigned thereto under this part during the period of such assignments on the same basis as if they were regular employees of the receiving agency.

(a) Disclosure of the interests named in § 8-50-502 shall be made to the Tennessee ethics commission by candidates for and appointees to the following offices:(1) Each member of the general assembly;(2) The secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, state treasurer and each…

(1) Disclosure shall be made of:(1) The major source or sources of private income of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), including, but not limited to, offices, directorships, and salaried employments of the person making disclosure, the spouse, or minor children residing wi…

Any disclosure statement shall be amended from time to time as conditions change because of the termination or acquisition of interests as to which disclosure is required.

As long as any person required by this part to file a disclosure statement retains office or employment, such person shall file an amended statement with the Tennessee ethics commission or notify the Tennessee ethics commission in writing that such person has had no change of con…

(a) The ethics commission has the jurisdiction to administer and enforce the provisions of this part concerning disclosure statements of conflicts of interest. This enforcement power includes the full range of powers and penalties and procedures established in title 3, chapter 6.…

(a) No employee in the preferred service under chapter 30 of this title, shall be required by the appointing authority to submit a disclosure statement or any financial disclosure statement, unless such employee or a member of the employee's immediate family has a financial inter…

Each disclosure statement or amendment to a disclosure statement filed under this part must be signed either in writing or electronically under penalty of perjury, and contain substantially the following language: I understand that, pursuant to T.C.A. § 8-50-507, submitting a dis…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Public Employee Political Freedom Act of 1980.”

(a) No public employee shall be prohibited from communicating with an elected public official for any job-related purpose whatsoever. (b) For purposes of this part, “public employee” means any person providing services for the state of Tennessee, state agencies, counties, municip…

(a) It is unlawful for any public employer to discipline, threaten to discipline or otherwise discriminate against an employee because such employee exercised that employee's right to communicate with an elected public official. (b) If the court of competent jurisdiction determin…

No provision of this part shall be construed to prohibit an employer from correcting or reprimanding an employee for making untrue allegations concerning any job-related matter to an elected public official.

(a) Any state employee may authorize deductions for contributions to the volunteer public education trust fund, established by § 49-3-403, to be made from the employee's compensation. These deductions shall be in addition to those permitted by other sections of this title. (b) To…

(a) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Local education agency” or “LEA” has the same definition as used in § 49-3-104; and(2) “Teacher” has the same definition as used in § 8-34-101. (1) “Local education agency” or “LEA” has the same definition as us…

(a) Each officer and employee of the several departments and agencies of the state government who is scheduled to work one thousand six hundred (1,600) hours or more in a fiscal year, whether compensated on hourly, daily, monthly or on a piecework basis, shall be granted absence …

(a) (1) Sick leave may be granted:(A) To each officer and employee described in § 8-30-102(b)(1) who is scheduled to work one thousand six hundred (1,600) hours or more in a fiscal year, whether compensated on an hourly, daily, monthly, or piecework basis, at the rate of one (1) …

(a) In determining the amount of full-time service accrued by an employee of the state of Tennessee, all full-time service accumulated while employed in any agency, office, or department of the state or in any state college or university shall be credited for purposes of the leav…

(a) Whenever an employee who has worked on a full-time, continuous basis for the state of Tennessee for at least one (1) full year leaves state employment in good standing and returns to state service as a full-time state employee, the employee shall immediately be credited with …

Sections 8-50-803 and 8-50-804 do not apply to state employees or teachers employed by a local school board in Tennessee who leave the employ of the state or of that board in good standing and become full-time state employees within six (6) months of the date of termination. Such…

Special leave shall be granted for a period of twelve (12) weeks to adoptive parents. Employees may use sick leave and annual leave for all or a portion of that twelve (12) weeks, not to exceed the employee's leave balance if the child is one (1) year old or less; in the event bo…

(a) (1) Each officer and employee entitled to annual leave by this part must be compensated upon termination for the officer's or employee's unused accrued annual leave, based upon the number of months the employee worked beyond the officer's or employee's service anniversary dat…

(a) The estate of any employee, on the employee's death, or the estate of any deceased employee which is being compensated for terminal leave on June 3, 1981, shall be compensated for the employee's unused and accrued sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased emp…

(a) These provisions for annual, sick leave and terminal leave do not apply to the members of the instructional staffs of the special schools administered by the department of education. (b) This part, except for those provisions that relate to annual/sick leave transfer, sick le…

A state employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American Red Cross may be granted leave from work with pay for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) work days in each year to participate in specialized disaster relief services for the American Red Cross. The e…

(a) An employee of any board, commission or agency created by the supreme court of Tennessee shall be eligible to accrue leave commencing July 1, 2002, pursuant to the provisions of this part that apply to state employees. Any years of service rendered by the employee to any such…

In addition to the sick leave granted under § 8-50-802, a state employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability of thirty percent (30%) or more receives thirty-six (36) hours of leave each year that can be used to attend appointments related to the service-connected…

(a) In addition to leave granted under §§ 8-50-801, 8-50-802, and 8-50-806, an eligible employee must be granted absence from work with pay for a period of time equal to six (6) workweeks because of the birth of the employee's child or the placement of a child with the employee f…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Adoption” includes that period of time beginning with the filing of an adoption petition and the initial placement of a minor child within the residence of a prospective adoptive parent pursuant to a court-ordered parental power of attorney or gua…

(a) In addition to leave granted under §§ 8-50-801, 8-50-802, 8-50-806, and 8-50-813, an eligible employee must be granted 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 …

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Employee organization” means any organization:(A) With membership open to all state employees;(B) Which has a payroll deduction established by § 8-23-204; and(C) Which has a membership of more than twenty percen…

(1) Establishment of the sick leave bank shall be in accordance with the following:(1) Sick leave accumulated under part 8 of this chapter may be donated to the bank;(2) Only one (1) sick leave bank will be established for all employees of the state of Tennessee; provided, that a…

(1) When authorization to establish a sick leave bank has been granted by the commissioner of finance and administration, the sick leave bank trustees shall be established as follows:(1) Not later than thirty (30) days following the commissioner's authorization, a board of truste…

(a) The trustees shall provide for rules and regulations not inconsistent with §§ 8-50-901 – 8-50-909. (b) These rules and regulations shall be established and adopted by the board of trustees, exclusive of the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5…

(a) All employees and teachers of all state special schools and all persons employed by state government who are entitled to accrue sick leave pursuant to part 8 of this chapter, and who have been employed by state government or any state special school for twelve (12) full month…

(a) The board of trustees shall determine the number of days of sick leave to be deducted from the sick leave balance of state employees who elect to participate in the bank. Any state employee who elects to participate in the bank shall initially have a minimum of three (3) days…

(a) The sick leave bank trustees shall establish the criteria for distributing sick leave from the bank, hear appeals of denials of request for sick leave, and prescribe the form and manner of participation in the bank. (b) All actions of the trustees require four (4) affirmative…

(1) A member shall lose the right to obtain the benefits of the sick leave bank by:(1) Resignation or termination of employment with the state of Tennessee;(2) Cancellation of participation which is effective only on June 30 next;(3) Refusal to honor such assessment as may be req…

In the event the sick leave bank is dissolved, the total number of days on deposit shall be returned to the then participating members and credited to their personal sick leave accumulation in proportion to the number of days each has contributed individually. Days returned under…

Any cost arising from a donation of sick leave by a participating employee to the sick leave bank shall be deducted from the budget of the department or agency employing the person who makes the donation.

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Branch” refers to any one (1) of the campuses governed by the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee which is listed in § 49-9-202;(2) “Faculty” means officers and members of the teaching staffs of …

The University of Tennessee and the state university and community college system are directed to establish a sick leave bank for their non-faculty employees pursuant to the terms of § 8-50-925.

The department of education is directed to establish for its non-faculty positions at the Tennessee School for the Blind, Tennessee School for the Deaf, Alvin C. York Institute, and West Tennessee School for the Deaf, a sick leave bank pursuant to former title 49, chapter 50, par…