Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-106 (2026)
Company stores
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) It is not lawful for any employer, or agent, clerk or superintendent of the employer, who owns or controls a store for the sale of general merchandise in connection with the employer's manufacturing or other business, to attempt to control the employer's employees or laborers in the purchase of goods and supplies at the store, by withholding the payment of wages longer than the usual time of payment, whereby the employee would be compelled to purchase supplies at the employer's store.
- (b) No employee shall be required, as a condition of employment, to trade at a store specified by the employer.
- (c) Any person violating this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.
Acts 1887, ch. 155, §§ 1-2; Shan., §§ 6882-6883; mod. Code 1932, §§ 11361-11362; Acts 1935, ch. 58, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 1136.1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 50-316, 50-317; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2015–2015 · leading case: Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\"" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015).
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\"" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-2-106 (c). The courts have permitted private actions under § 50-2-106 (as currently numbered), however, noting that ―it is apparent that the evil sought to be corrected [by the section, which was first enacted in 1887,] was the paying of .”
Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\" - DISSENT" (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “Section 50-2-106 prohibits employers from dictating where employees purchase goods and services; a violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.”
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