No employment agency, or employer thereof, shall:

(1) Impose any fee on candidates except for furnishing of employment directly or indirectly through the efforts of such employment agency;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 47-18-1703

  • Candidate: means any person, whether employed or unemployed, seeking or entering into any arrangement for employment or change of employment through the services of an employment agency. See Tennessee Code 47-18-1702
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Employer: means any person who engages or seeks to engage candidates for employment. See Tennessee Code 47-18-1702
  • Employment agency: means any person who, for a fee paid by a candidate or other compensation provided by a candidate:
    (A) Places or attempts to place candidates seeking employment where the fee is not paid by the employer. See Tennessee Code 47-18-1702
  • Fee: means anything of value paid or directed to be paid for the services of an employment agency. See Tennessee Code 47-18-1702
  • Person: means any individual, company, corporation, partnership, association or firm, including any officer, director or employee of a corporation. See Tennessee Code 47-18-1702
  • 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
(2) Impose any fee on any candidate prior to the time at which that candidate has secured a job;
(3) Engage or attempt to engage in the splitting or sharing of fees with an employer, or an employee of an employer, to whom employment agency services have been furnished;
(4) Impose any fee for employing or training a person as a personnel consultant with such employment agency;
(5) Make, give or cause to be made or given to any candidate any false promise, misrepresentation, or inaccurate or misleading statement or information;
(6) Procure or attempt to procure the discharge of any person from such person’s employment;
(7) Induce or attempt to induce any employee placed by the employment agency to leave such employment, except upon request made and initiated by such employee;
(8) Knowingly refer any candidate to employment which is prohibited by law, or deleterious to health or morals;
(9) Refer any candidate for an interview without having first obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona fide job order or recruiting assignment from an employer for an interview;
(10) Make or cause to be made or use any name, sign or advertising device bearing a name which may be reasonably confused with the name of a government agency;
(11) Knowingly publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent, deceptive or misleading information, representation, permission, notice or advertisement;
(12) Require any candidate to contract with a specified lending agency to pay employment agency service charges; or
(13) Knowingly and willfully violate any law of this state or the United States.
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