Tex. Gov't Code § 437.204 · Subchapter E. TEXAS MILITARY FORCES
REEMPLOYMENT OF SERVICE MEMBER CALLED TO TRAINING OR DUTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An employer may not terminate the employment of an employee who is a member of the state military forces of this state or any other state because the employee is ordered to authorized training or duty by a proper authority. The employee is entitled to return to the same employment held when ordered to training or duty and may not be subjected to loss of time, efficiency rating, vacation time, or any benefit of employment during or because of the absence. The employee, as soon as practicable after release from duty, must give written or actual notice of intent to return to employment.
(b) A violation of this section is an unlawful employment practice. A person injured by a violation of this section may file a complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission civil rights division under Subchapter I.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1217 (S.B. 1536), Sec. 1.01, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.437.htm
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Cited by 13 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Gov't Code § 437.204. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.2131RIGHT TO CIVIL ACTION AND PRIVATE LEGAL COUNSEL.Printed as Section 437.204 | Section 437.204(b)
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.402FILING OF COMPLAINT; FORM AND CONTENT; SERVICE.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.403ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.404INVESTIGATION BY COMMISSION.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.405LACK OF REASONABLE CAUSE; DISMISSAL OF COMPLAINT.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.406DETERMINATION OF REASONABLE CAUSE; REVIEW BY PANEL.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.407RESOLUTION BY INFORMAL METHODS.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.409TEMPORARY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.410CIVIL ACTION BY COMMISSION.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.413COMMISSION'S INTERVENTION IN CIVIL ACTION BY COMPLAINANT.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.415INJUNCTION; EQUITABLE RELIEF.Printed as Section 437.204
- Tex. Gov't Code § 437.416COMPENSATORY AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES.Printed as Section 437.204
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