Negativa a atender enfermedades contagiosas

Sec. 207.053. REFUSAL TO TREAT COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. (a) An individual is disqualified for benefits if the individual: (1) left the individual's last work voluntarily rather than provide services included within the course and scope of the individual's employment to an individual infected with a communicable disease; or (2) was discharged from the individual's last work because the individual refused to provide services included within the course and scope of the individual's employment to an individual infected with a communicable disease. (b) An individual is not disqualified under this section unless the person for whom the individual last worked made available to the individual the facilities, equipment, training, and supplies necessary to permit the individual to take reasonable precautions to preclude the infection of the individual with the communicable disease. (c) Disqualification for benefits under this section continues until the individual has returned to employment and: (1) worked for six weeks; or (2) earned wages equal to six times the individual's weekly benefit amount. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. SUBCHAPTER D. PROTECTION OF BENEFIT RIGHTS