What labor law posters are required for Texas employers?
Posters are the easiest compliance item to complete and one of the first things an investigator photographs when they walk in the door.
Last updated: July 03, 2026
Direct Answer
Texas employers must display required federal posters, including the FLSA minimum wage poster, OSHA Job Safety and Health poster, and the Know Your Rights EEO poster, plus the FMLA poster for covered employers with 50 or more employees. Texas adds state notices, including the Texas Payday Law notice, the unemployment compensation notice, and a workers' compensation coverage status notice. All required posters are available free from the issuing agencies.
What This Means for Employers
The core federal set applies to nearly everyone: minimum wage, OSHA, EEO rights, employee polygraph protection, and USERRA. The FMLA poster joins the wall at 50 employees. Texas contributes the Payday Law notice with your designated paydays, the Texas Workforce Commission unemployment notice, and, for every employer, a notice stating whether the company carries workers' compensation coverage, with specific language for non-subscribers.
Placement matters as much as possession. Posters belong where employees actually pass and can read them: break rooms, time clocks, common hallways. Multi-location employers need the set at each location, and remote workforces should receive the content electronically or by mail, since a poster in an office nobody visits reaches no one.
What Employers Usually Miss
Paying for posters is unnecessary. Every required poster is free from the Department of Labor, EEOC, OSHA, and TWC websites. The laminated all-in-one products sold by compliance vendors are a convenience, and the aggressive letters implying legal jeopardy unless you buy one are a sales tactic.
Currency is the real gap. Agencies revise posters, and an outdated EEO or minimum wage poster is a citable condition. Put poster review on an annual calendar entry, ideally alongside your handbook review, and the problem stays solved.
Posting Compliance Risks to Watch
Poster violations are minor alone but signal broader neglect to any investigator. Watch for these.
- Missing workers' compensation status notice, especially for non-subscribers
- Payday notice absent or showing wrong designated paydays
- Outdated poster versions still on the wall
- Satellite locations and job sites with no posters at all
- Fully remote employees who have never received the required notices
What to Review Before You Act
Walk each location with the current federal and Texas checklists, photograph what is posted, and replace anything outdated the same week. The exercise takes an hour.
Confirm the two Texas-specific items most often missing: the payday notice with your actual designated paydays, and the workers' compensation status notice matching your real coverage status.
When to Get HR Help
Get help if posters are one symptom among many, because a missing wall notice usually travels with missing new-hire notices, stale handbooks, and unfiled reports. A compliance audit finds the cluster at once.
For remote and hybrid workforces, ask for a distribution approach that documents delivery, since proof matters more than the PDF.
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