2025 Texas Statutes
Labor Code
Title 2 - Protection of Laborers
Subtitle A - Employment Discrimination
Chapter 22 - Employment Discrimination for Participating in Emergency Evacuation
Section 22.002. Discrimination Prohibited

Universal Citation:
TX Lab Code § 22.002 (2025)
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Sec. 22.002. DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED. An employer may not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee who leaves the employee's place of employment to participate in a general public evacuation ordered under an emergency evacuation order.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 9.09(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

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