§ 50-1-501 Short title
§ 50-1-502 Part definitions
§ 50-1-503 Development of model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace – Requirements of policy
§ 50-1-504 Immunity of employer when policy adopted – Cause of action against employer not created
§ 50-1-505 Injunction against person who commits harassment against employee of county, municipal, or metropolitan government
§ 50-1-506 Injunction against person who commits harassment against state employee
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 50 > Chapter 1 > Part 5 - Healthy Workplace Act

  • Abusive conduct: means acts or omissions that would cause a reasonable person, based on the severity, nature, and frequency of the conduct, to believe that an employee was subject to an abusive work environment, such as:
    (A) Repeated verbal abuse in the workplace, including derogatory remarks, insults, and epithets. See Tennessee Code 50-1-502
  • Agency: means any department, commission, board, office or other agency of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government. See Tennessee Code 50-1-502
  • Employee: means an employee of any county, metropolitan government, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state. See Tennessee Code 50-1-502
  • Employer: means a private employer and a state or local governmental entity. See Tennessee Code 50-1-502
  • Harassment: means two (2) or more instances of contact serving no legitimate purpose directed at an employee, in connection with that person's status as an employee, that a reasonable person would consider alarming, threatening, intimidating, abusive, or emotionally distressing and that does or reasonably could interfere with the performance of the employee's duties. See Tennessee Code 50-1-502
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105