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Mandatory for ALL Businesses in Texas
It is a legal obligation for all businesses in the United States to prominently display current labor law posters.
You can purchase an all-inclusive poster that contains all of the necessary 2024 State, Federal, and OSHA Notices at the link below.
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Federally Required
Equal Opportunity is the Law
The law requires an employer to post a notice describing the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, religion, age (40 and older), equal pay, disability or genetic information (including family medical history or genetic tests or services), and retaliation for filing a charge, reasonably opposing discrimination, or participating in a discrimination lawsuit, investigation, or proceeding. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 imposes a monetary penalty for covered employers who fail to post these notices. The penalty, currently $680, is adjusted annually for inflation as required by law.
Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Every employer covered by the nondiscrimination and EEO laws is required to post on its premises the poster, "Know Your Rights." The notice must be posted prominently, where it can be readily seen by employees and applicants for employment. The notice provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
Job Safety and Health: It's the Law
All covered employers are required to display and keep displayed the OSHA Job Safety and Health: It's the Law poster. Employers in states with an OSHA-approved state plan may be required to post a state version of the OSHA poster. There is a separate poster for Federal agencies. The OSHA poster must be displayed in a conspicuous place where employees can see it. Copies of the poster shall be at least 8 1/2 by 14 inches with 10 point type. The poster is available in English, Spanish, and several other languages. Posting of the notice in languages other than English is not required, but OSHA encourages employers with workers that speak other languages to also display the other relevant versions of the poster.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Every employer of employees subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage provisions must post, and keep posted, a notice explaining the Act in a conspicuous place in all of their establishments so as to permit employees to readily read it. The content of the notice is prescribed by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.
Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination
Federal contractors are required to post the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision and include it in employee handbooks and manuals. Contractors must place the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision somewhere that it is conspicuously available to all applicants and employees. Contractors can post this provision either physically on the premises or electronically.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Public agencies (including state, local, and federal employers), public and private elementary and secondary schools, as well as private sector employers who employ 50 or more employees in 20 or more work weeks and who are engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce, including joint employers and successors of covered employers.
Texas Notice to Employees Concerning Workers’ Compensation
The law requires an employer to post a notice describing the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, religion, age (40 and older), equal pay, disability or genetic information (including family medical history or genetic tests or services), and retaliation for filing a charge, reasonably opposing discrimination, or participating in a discrimination lawsuit, investigation, or proceeding. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 imposes a monetary penalty for covered employers who fail to post these notices. The penalty, currently $680, is adjusted annually for inflation as required by law.
Employee Polygraph Protection Act
The Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) prohibits most private employers from using lie detector tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment. Employers generally may not require or request any employee or job applicant to take a lie detector test, or discharge, discipline, or discriminate against an employee or job applicant for refusing to take a test or for exercising other rights under the Act. Employers may not use or inquire about the results of a lie detector test or discharge or discriminate against an employee or job applicant on the basis of the results of a test, or for filing a complaint, or for participating in a proceeding under the Act.
Employee Rights for Workers with Disabilities/Special Minimum Wage
Every employer of workers with disabilities under special minimum wage certificates authorized by the Fair Labor Standards Act, the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act, and/or the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act shall display a poster prescribed by the Wage and Hour Division explaining the conditions under which special minimum wages may be paid. The poster shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the employer's premises where employees and the parents or guardians of workers with disabilities can readily see it.
Employee’s Rights Under H-2A Program
All H-2A workers are entitled to free housing and free daily transportation to and from the worksite. U.S. workers in corresponding employment are also entitled to free housing and daily transportation if they are not “reasonably able” to return home within the same day.
Migrant & Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) protects migrant and seasonal agricultural workers by establishing employment standards related to wages, housing, transportation, disclosures and recordkeeping. The MSPA also requires farm labor contractors to register with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Texas Payday Law
The Texas Payday Law requires employers to pay their employees in full, on time, and on scheduled paydays. The law also tells how and when employers can pay wages. The Payday law helps employees who were not paid their wages correctly.
State Required
Texas Unemployment Compensation
Alternative to the Texas Payday Law Poster. The Texas Unemployment Compensation Act (TUCA) establishes the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in Texas, defines employment and establishes which types of employers participate in the unemployment tax system. These employers are referred to as “liable employers.”
Reporting Workplace Violence
Texas employers with one or more employees must post a notice in English and Spanish in a conspicuous place that is convenient to all employees that employees can anonymously report workplace violence or suspicious activities to the Department of Public Safety.
Equal Employment Opportunity
If you have 15 or more employees, you must display the poster that talks about everyone getting a fair chance to work. If you are a smaller employer with federal grants and contracts, you are also required to show this poster.
Worker’s Compensation
If you have 15 or more employees, you must display the poster that talks about everyone getting a fair chance to work. If you are a smaller employer with federal grants and contracts, you are also required to show this poster.
Earned Income Tax Credit
Texas employers must tell their employees of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) no later than March 1st of each year.
Optional for Businesses in Texas
The Law in Texas
The U.S. DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) requires state workforce agencies, including Texas Workforce Solutions offices, to display an ETA-approved Job Service Complaint System poster.
Child Labor Laws
Information on Filing a Wage Claim under the Texas Payday Law. This is regulated by TWC's Wage and Hour Department.
Filing a Wage Claim under the Texas Payday Law
The U.S. DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) requires state workforce agencies, including Texas Workforce Solutions offices, to display an ETA-approved Job Service Complaint System poster.
