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Terms Used In Texas Labor Code 21.113

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

This chapter does not require a person subject to this chapter to grant preferential treatment to an individual or a group on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age because of an imbalance between:
(1) the total number or percentage of persons of that individual’s or group’s race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age:
(A) employed by an employer;
(B) referred or classified for employment by an employment agency or labor organization;
(C) admitted to membership or classified by a labor organization; or
(D) admitted to or employed in an apprenticeship, on-the-job training, or other training or retraining program; and
(2) the total number or percentage of persons of that race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age in:
(A) a community, this state, a region, or other area; or
(B) the available work force in a community, this state, a region, or other area.