This Law Firm Publication by Ford & Harrison LLP discusses Yardley v. Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC, in which the Tennessee Supreme Court held that a job applicant had no cause of action under the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Act (TWCA) against a prospective employer for allegedly declining to hire the applicant based on her workers' compensation claim against a former employer. While the TWCA prohibits employers from firing an employee for filing a workers' compensation claim, Tennessee has no statutory or common law cause of action protecting applicants from a retaliatory failure to hire.