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Tennessee Expands Employee Protections Relating to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

By Evandro Gigante and Laura Fant on March 16, 2022 Posted in Coronavirus

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed into law a bill that expands protections for employees who are subject to employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The new law supplements existing state law that prohibits private employers and other entities from compelling or otherwise taking “adverse action” against a person to compel the person to provide proof of … Continue Reading

Tennessee Enacts Trio of Employment Laws

By Allison Martin, Daniel Saperstein, Joseph O’Keefe, Kelly Anne Targett and Nicholas M. Tamburri on June 20, 2014 Posted in Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation, Hiring/Background Checks, Workplace Policies and Procedures

Tennessee’s governor recently signed three new employment laws. The first, a social media law, takes effect on January 1, 2015,and provides applicants and employees with social media protections similar to those in fifteen other states.The second, a negligent hiring and retention law, designed to provide a measure of protection to employers that hire and retain … Continue Reading

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