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Texas Labor Code - LAB § 62.152. Employment by Religious, Educational, Charitable, or Nonprofit Organization

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who is:

(1) a member of a religious order while the person is performing a service for or at the direction of the order;

(2) a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest, rabbi, sexton, or Christian Science reader while the person is performing services in that capacity for a church, synagogue, or religious organization;

(3) engaged in the activities of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization in which:

(A) the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist; or

(B) the services are rendered to the organization gratuitously;

(4) employed by the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or a local organization affiliated with those organizations;

(5) employed by a camp of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization; or

(6) employed with the person's spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of a child:

(A) who is an orphan;

(B) one of whose natural parents is deceased; or

(C) who is enrolled in and resides in residential facilities of the institution, if the employee and the employee's spouse:

(i) reside in residential facilities of the institution; and

(ii) receive, without cost, board and lodging from the institution.

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