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The original new hire reporting program was started in Tennessee in the late 1990s. as it was with most of the other states that we have looked at in this blog. But more recently than that, the state of Tennessee has actually made some changes to their new hire reporting labor law that we should look out. So strap on your seatbelts! We’re taking a road trip to the state of Tennessee, home of the Grand Ole’ Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Heeee Hawwwwww!

The new change to the Tennessee labor law on new hire reporting came about at the turn of this century. Law makers made effective July 18, 2001, a new requirement that makes the date of hire a required bit of info that must be included with the new hire report for every employee. Previously—and it is still the case in many other states—the date of hire of a new employee is just optional when it comes to sending in data.

The new Tennessee law also makes it so that employers have to register one time in order to submit new hire data on the Web. The registration also allows them to upload information from the state system.

The other benefits of registering and submitting new hire reports online in the state of Tennessee include that you don’t have to repeatedly submit your employer info. When you submit the old fashioned way, you would have to provide your company name, company address, and company employer federal ID number. Not in the Tennessee online reporting system. That info comes up automatically when you sign in to the system.

You can also go online and change your employer information any time, if say, you move your company headquarters or change the company name. After that one change, the new company info is stored in the system.

In Tennessee (TN) we take a lot of pride in our workers through our Department of Human Resources. As a department there are a lot of jobs that they partake in to help us. This is in regards to both employees and employers. They do everything they can to maintain and provide a steady and safe work environment for everyone in our state. This department tries to maintain and work at lowering the unemployment rate for our people.

They try to lower and maintain our employment rate in Tennessee through many different ways. In May of 2005 the unemployment rate in our state was at 6.2%. It is now in at the current rate of 5.9% which is an improvement but nowhere near the ultimate goal. When it is compared to the national average of 4.8% it pales in comparison and shows just how much further we have to go. However we are working very hard at maintaining lower rates. In the past three years we have created well over 123,000 new jobs in our state in order to work at the unemployment battle. The department is also working for you to keep the levels down by having retraining and placement programs in place that will put you back into the workforce faster.

One of the primary jobs of the Tennessee Department of Human Resources is also to maintain and keep up with unemployment as well as worker’s compensation benefits. This means that they give these benefits out as well as monitor to ensure that they are not being taken advantage of. This department is also in charge of maintaining and upholding all of the labor laws of the state in order to keep the employers and employees treated fairly and honestly. If you are having issues in your workplace this is the department that you need to contact.