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title: Title 34, Chapter 7. Employment Generally; Employers Liability
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date: 2025
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heading: EMPLOYMENT GENERALLY; EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
title_heading: LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
section_count: 19
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# Title 34, Chapter 7. Employment Generally; Employers Liability

Title 34. Labor and Industrial Relations

19 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 34-7-1, Determination of term of employment; manner of termination of indefinite hiring, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-1.md
- 34-7-2, Payment of wages by lawful money, checks, or credit transfer; selection of payment dates by employer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-2.md
- 34-7-3, Requirements where wages paid by written instrument; effect of protest or dishonor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-3.md
- 34-7-4, Payment of outstanding wages to beneficiary; payment as release from claims to funds or claims against employer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-4.md
- 34-7-5, Redemption of checks or other written evidences of indebtedness for wages, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-5.md
- 34-7-6, Professional employer organizations; rights, powers, and responsibilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-6.md
- 34-7-20, Care by employer in selection of employees and in furnishing of safe machinery; employer’s duty to warn, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-20.md
- 34-7-21, Liability of employer for coemployees’ negligence, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-21.md
- 34-7-22, Contracts exempting employer from liability are null and void, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-22.md
- 34-7-23, Assumption of risk by employees; requirements for recovery of damages, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-23.md
- 34-7-40, ‘‘Common carrier’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-40.md
- 34-7-41, Liability of common carrier by railroad for personal injury or death of employee generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-41.md
- 34-7-42, Contributory negligence of employee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-42.md
- 34-7-43, Assumption of risk where employer is contributorily negligent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-43.md
- 34-7-44, Employer exemptions from liability void; allowable setoffs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-44.md
- 34-7-45, Liability of receivers, trustees, and assignees of railroad companies for coemployees’ negligence; lien on railroad company income, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-45.md
- 34-7-46, Limitation period for institution of action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-46.md
- 34-7-47, Liability of railroad company to its employees for negligence of employees of another railroad company using same track, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-47.md
- 34-7-48, Recovery by employee working beyond limited hours of service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/34-7-48.md