Tennessee
Tennessee employers that employ minor employees (those under age 18) and seek to inform the minor employees and their supervisors about legally required meal breaks and to demonstrate compliance with the law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers with 100 or more full-time, regular (i.e., not temporary) employees employed at one job site or location (which can include more than one facility) are required by law to include this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers with five or more employees working on a regular basis that seek to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of jury duty leave and to show their compliance with Tennessee's jury duty leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers with fewer than five employees working on a regular basis that seek to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of jury duty leave and to show their compliance with Tennessee's jury duty leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers seeking to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of time off to vote and to show their compliance with Tennessee's voting leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers seeking to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of leave to serve as a volunteer firefighter and to show their compliance with Tennessee law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers with enclosed workplace areas should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers seeking to show their compliance with Tennessee's texting while driving law, to promote driving safety and to limit liability from accidents involving employees who are driving and using electronic devices for work-related purposes or driving a company-owned vehicle should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Tennessee employers seeking to explain how the handbook and supplement should be read together and that neither the handbook nor the supplement alter an employee's at-will status should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.