Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 (2026)
Prospective employee to be informed as to wages - Exceptions - Enforcement
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) As used in this section, "workshops and factories" includes manufacturing, mills, mechanical, electrical, mercantile, art, and laundering establishments, printing, telegraph, and telephone offices, department stores, or any kind of establishment where labor is employed or machinery is used; provided, that domestic service and agricultural pursuits are excluded.
- (b) It is unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person to employ, permit or suffer to work for hire, in, about, or in connection with any workshop or factory any person whatsoever without first informing the employee of the amount of wages to be paid for the labor. This shall not apply to farm labor. Nothing in this section shall apply to railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce and subject to the federal Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.).
- (c)
- (1) The failure on the part of any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person in charge of any industry named in subsection (a) to inform any employee of the wages to be paid as provided in this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
- (2) Nothing in this section shall be so construed to preclude the employment of any person or persons on a piece-work basis or on a commission basis.
- (d) The department of labor and workforce development shall enforce this section.
Amended by 2013 Tenn. Acts, ch. 240, Secs.s 1, s 2 eff. 4/23/2013.
Acts 1915, ch. 144, § 1; Shan., § 4433a95; Code 1932, § 5324; Acts 1935, ch. 73, §§ 1, 2; C. Supp. 1950, §§ 5330.1, 5330.2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 50-301, 50-302; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2013–2023 · leading case: Abadeer v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 975 F. Supp. 2d 890 (M.D. Tenn. 2013).
Abadeer v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 975 F. Supp. 2d 890 (M.D. Tenn. 2013). “240 §§ 1, 2 (amending Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 ). In relevant part, the legislature removed language specifying that the wage amount agreed upon between employer and employee “shall constitute a basis for litigation in civil cases,” TenmCode Ann.”
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\"" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 (b) (2012) (emphasis added).”
Antonius Harris v. Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Corr. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2014). “M2013-01858-COA-R3-CV - Filed May 8, 2014 Inmates in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction who are housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, filed various claims related to their “prison jobs,” inter alia, for wages and damages…”
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\" - DISSENT" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “While I agree with the majority that amendments to Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-2-101 do not govern enforcement of Section 50-2-107, I disagree with the court‟s interpretation of section 107 itself, and I further disagree with this Court‟s holding in Owens.”
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc., d/b/a \TPC Southwind, 513 S.W.3d 427 (2017). “See Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 (b) and (d) (2014).”
Stafford v. Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc. (W.D.N.C. 2023). “, citing T.C.A. § 50-2-101–113. 4 Id., citing K.R.”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101(b) — 3 cases
Abadeer v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 975 F. Supp. 2d 890 (M.D. Tenn. 2013). “240 §§ 1, 2 (amending Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 ). In relevant part, the legislature removed language specifying that the wage amount agreed upon between employer and employee “shall constitute a basis for litigation in civil cases,” TenmCode Ann.”
Antonius Harris v. Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Corr. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2014). “M2013-01858-COA-R3-CV - Filed May 8, 2014 Inmates in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction who are housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, filed various claims related to their “prison jobs,” inter alia, for wages and damages…”
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\"" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-101 (b) (2012) (emphasis added).”
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