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As enacted, prohibits marketplace platforms from keeping tips intended for marketplace contractors. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 62.
As enacted, extends the deadline for an injured employee to file a claim for increased benefits with the bureau of workers' compensation; lengthens the period of time following an injury an employee has to provide notice to the bureau of workers' compensation of an injury and the failure of an employer to secure payment of compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
As enacted, excludes construction services providers performing work in this state from certain provisions of the workers' compensation law, requires construction services providers to maintain workers' compensation insurance coverage while working in this state, and imposes liability on a successor in interest of a penalized construction services provider. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
Proposes adding a provision establishing right to work regardless of status of affiliation with any labor union or employee organization.
As introduced, transfers administration of construction service provider registration from the secretary of state to the bureau of workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 9.
As introduced, allows an age-restricted venue to continue to permit smoking in the venue even if the venue employs a person under 21 years of age if the employee is a child of the owner of the venue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 50, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 57.
As introduced, clarifies statutes related to retaliatory termination of an employee. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 50, Chapter 1.
As introduced, encourages all employers in this state to provide a paid day off each Veterans' Day for all employees of the employer who are veterans. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 58.
As introduced, prohibits private employers with 50 or more employees and public employers from making employment decisions with regard to an applicant or current employee based on wage or salary history. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.
As introduced, requires the department of human resources to make an annual report on or before January 15, instead of periodically, to the governor on recommendations for improvements of the state service system. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 28; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 50.
As introduced, defines race and protective hairstyle for the purposes of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50.
As introduced, changes from July 1 to January 31 the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must report its findings on the impact of the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013 on the workers' compensation system in this state to each member of the general assembly; requires the bureau to provide an annual presentation of its findings by January 31 each year to the consumer and human resources committee of the house of representatives and the commerce and labor committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.
As introduced, creates a presumption that a public safety employee diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; expands definition of public safety employee. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 33; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.
As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.
As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $10, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Family Insurance Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.
As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
As introduced, exempts from the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act any dividend, liquidating distribution, refund, or other distribution by a workers' compensation self-insurer pool. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 66.
As introduced, directs Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to perform a study to find any disparities between equal pay for equal work between men and women of the public sector in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
As introduced, creates the Tennessee future of work commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the minimum hourly wage not less than $15.00 per hour, to be adjusted annually to reflect inflation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
As introduced, adds advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants as healthcare providers from whom an injured employee may choose to receive treatment in a workers' compensation case, in addition to physicians, surgeons, and chiropractors. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
As introduced, prohibits revocation of parole, probation, or bail based on drug test result that is positive for THC below a certain level; prohibits public employers from taking adverse employment action and denying certain benefits based on such test result. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Section 49-6-4213; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 50; Section 63-1-126 and Title 71.
As introduced, revises provisions governing penalties for noncompliance with workers' compensation coverage requirements. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
As enacted, prohibits a medical review officer from considering prescriptions issued more than six months prior to a positive confirmed drug result for purposes of determining a valid prescription and immunity from actions authorized for employers to take against employees and job applicants following such a result under drug-free workplace program. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
As enacted, revises provisions governing determination of whether an employer-employee relationship exists in certain employment arrangements. - Amends TCA Title 50.
As enacted, adds private employers to the types of employers subject to the requirements of the Healthy Workplace Act; clarifies that the Healthy Workplace Act does not create a cause of action against an employer who does not adopt the model policy created by TACIR or adopt a policy that conforms to the requirements set out in TACIR'S policy. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from contracting with a person who does not provide evidence of work authorization status for each individual to whom public money will be received under a public contract; requires private employers with at least six employees and governmental entities to verify the work authorization status of employees hired on or after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
As introduced, redefines "base period" for determining weekly benefit amounts and other purposes under the Tennessee Employment Security Law by reducing the number of completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of the individual's benefit year from four or five to two. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
As introduced, makes it a discriminatory practice for a person who is paying a non-employee for labor or services to engage in harassment of the non-employee because of the non-employee's sex; holds such persons liable for the actions of their employees in engaging in such harassment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee State Family Leave Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.
As introduced, requires employers to provide employees four hours of leave, paid or unpaid, each year for parental involvement in schools, subject to certain conditions; establishes a private cause of action for employer violations. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
Supports establishment of a Full Employment National Trust Fund.
As introduced, prohibits employers from accessing sealed or expunged criminal records when performing a criminal background check on a prospective employee; prohibits employers from asking applicants about certain previous convictions during the application process; requires employers to provide applicants a letter explaining a denial of employment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 50.
As introduced, prohibits as a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine an employer from screening an applicant for employment based upon compensation history; permits employer to consider the compensation history of current employee during a transfer, move, or hire of the employee to a new position with the same employer; permits applicant to voluntarily share compensation history information with prospective employer; grants enforcement authority to department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
As introduced, enacts the Prospective Employee Credit Information Privacy Act, which prohibits an employer from failing or refusing to recruit or interview a prospective employee with respect to certain employment based on that person's credit information and creates a private cause of action for those injured due to violations by employers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.