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Tennessee Bans Noncompetes for Workers Making Less Than $70,000 Annually

Ogletree Deakins — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:50:48 +0000

Quick Hits Under House Bill (HB) 1034, total annual earnings includes wages, salary, commissions, nondiscretionary bonuses, and other forms of remuneration. Annualized compensation for an hourly employee must be calculated by multiplying the employee’s hourly rate by forty and multiplying the product by fifty-two. The legislation also introduces new rebuttable

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Thumb on the Scale: Tennessee Enacts New Reasonableness Presumptions for Noncompete Agreements While Outlawing Covenants for Lower-Wage Earners

Littler — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:30 +0000

Thumb on the Scale: Tennessee Enacts New Reasonableness Presumptions for Noncompete Agreements While Outlawing Covenants for Lower-Wage Earners Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill 1034 on May 7, 2026, enacting Tennessee’s first noncompete law outside the healthcare industry. The law becomes effective July 1, 2026, with a strictly prospective

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Tennessee Bans Noncompetes for Workers Making Less Than $70,000 Annually

Ogletree Deakins — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:59:07 +0000

On May 7, 2026, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill that bans the use of noncompete agreements for workers who make less than $70,000 per year.

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Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Expanding Student-Athlete NIL Compensation

Ogletree Deakins — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:36:25 +0000

On May 1, 2025, Governor Bill Lee signed into law legislation (SB 536/HB194) that expands Tennessee’s Intercollegiate Athlete’s Name, Image, or Likeness Law (“student-athlete NIL statute”). Under the law, Tennessee student-athletes will have no limits on NIL compensation unless the limitations are expressly prohibited or limited by federal law, a

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Tennessee Removes COVID-19 Statute’s Sunset Provision

Ogletree Deakins — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:27:40 +0000

Tennessee has permanently extended its COVID-19 statute under an enactment that removed the sunset provision of the state’s COVID-19 statute, which was set to expire on July 1, 2023.

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Tennessee’s Revised Mandatory E-Verify Law Applies to More Employers

Jackson Lewis — Mon, 30 May 2022 15:53:00 +0000

As of January 1, 2023, Tennessee will require all private employers with at least 35 employees to use E-Verify and maintain E-Verify case results. E-Verify is a federal electronic database intended to aid employers in confirming that the documentation provided by new hires to establish lawful employment eligibility is in

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Tennessee Enacts Law Restricting Enforcement of Vaccine Mandates

Ogletree Deakins — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:22:00 +0000

On November 10, 2021, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced that he would sign legislation that addresses various COVID-19–related issues, including vaccine mandates and mask mandates. The law is effective immediately. There are several major issues for employers regarding COVID-19 prevention measures addressed in the new law.

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Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Tennessee’s Bathroom Signage Law

Ogletree Deakins — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:08:41 +0000

On July 9, 2021, a federal district court in Nashville, Tennessee, granted a preliminary injunction, halting enforcement of a new Tennessee law on bathroom signage. That law mandates that businesses post specific signs next to their public bathrooms, if they allow people to use the bathroom that conforms with their

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Pandemic-Based E-Verify TNC Temporary Extensions to End

Jackson Lewis — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:25:00 +0000

E-Verify will no longer allow extensions for addressing Tentative Nonconfirmations (TNCs) beginning November 5, 2020. After relaxing processing guidelines because of processing hardships due to COVID-19, E-Verify is again enforcing its requirement that employees choosing to contest TNC notifications must take action to contact the appropriate government agency within 10

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Tennessee’s Latest Guidance on COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine

Littler — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:22:00 +0000

The Tennessee Department of Health has released guidelines on the length of isolation necessary for those who have contracted COVID-19 (referred to clinically in the guidance as “a Case”) and the length of quarantine for those who share living space with a Case. Isolation

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Tennessee Governor Signs COVID-19 Liability Shield into Law

Ford Harrison — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:22:22 +0000

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the Tennessee COVID-19 Recovery Act into law on Monday, August 17, 2020.

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Tennessee Governor Issues Order Urging Residents to Stay Home

Ford Harrison — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Summary: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued Executive Order No. 22 on Monday, March 30, 2020, urging all Tennesseans to stay at home as much as possible except for engaging in essential activities, like obtaining food, supplies, or medical care. The Order stops short of ordering residents to stay at home. Governor Lee’s Order only closes […]

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Federal Judge Enjoins City of Dallas’ Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Set To Be Enforced on April 1

Ford Harrison — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

As many employers across the country are gearing up for the April 1 effective date of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act leave provisions, employers of Dallas employees were also concerned about how the City of Dallas’ Paid Sick Leave Ordinance’s April 1 enforcement date would impact them. The ordinance has been in federal litigation […]

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Tennessee Adopts 20-Factor Test in Independent Contractor Analysis

Jackson Lewis — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Rejecting the strict “ABC” test adopted by its appellate court, Tennessee has enacted a new law (H.B. 539) adopting a 20-factor test to determine employee-versus-independent contractor status. The new law becomes effective January 1, 2020.

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Tennessee Expands Anti-Bullying Law to Private Employers

Littler — Wed, 22 May 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Tennessee recently amended its Healthy Workplace Act (Act), which seeks to prevent abusive conduct at work, to cover private employers. Enacted in 2014, the Act previously applied only to public employers. The amendment, which extends the Act’s provisions to the private sector, took effect immediately when Governor Bill Lee signed the bill into law on […]

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