Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.322 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.322
§ 4123.322. Rules for system of prospective payment of workers' compensation premiums
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing a prospective payment system, which shall include all of the following: (1) A requirement that upon an initial application for coverage, a private employer shall file with the application an estimate of the employer's payroll for the period the administrator determines pursuant to rules the administrator adopts, and shall pay the amount the administrator determines by rule in order to establish coverage for the employer as described in division (B)(12) of section 4121.121 of the Revised Code; (2) A requirement that upon an initial application for coverage, a public employer, except for a state agency or state university or college, shall file with the application an estimate of the employer's payroll for the period the administrator determines pursuant to rules the administrator adopts, and shall pay the amount the administrator determines by rule in order to establish coverage for the employer as described in division (B)(11) of section 4121.121 of the Revised Code; (3) A requirement that an employer complete periodic payroll reports of actual expenditures for previous coverage periods for reconciliation with estimated payroll reports; (4) The assessment of a penalty for late payroll reconciliation reports and for late payment of any reconciliation premium; (5) The establishment of a transition period during which time the bureau shall determine the adequacy of existing premium security deposits of employers, the establishment of provisions for additional premium payments during that transition, the provision of a credit of those deposits toward the first premium due from an employer under the rules adopted under divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section, and the establishment of penalties for late payment or failure to comply with the rules. (B) For purposes of division (A)(3) of this section, an employer shall make timely payment of any premium owed when actual payroll expenditures exceeded estimated payroll, and the employer shall receive premium credit when the estimated payroll exceeded the actual payroll. (C) For purposes of division (A)(4) of this section, if the employer's actual payroll substantially exceeds the estimated payroll, the administrator may assess additional penalties specified in rules the administrator adopts on the reconciliation premium. (D) As used in this section, "state university or college" has the same meaning as in section 4123.32 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4151.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4151 / § 4151.02
§ 4151.02. Employee verification
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 246 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker shall fail to verify the employment eligibility of each employee hired to perform work on a nonresidential construction project through the e-verify program. A nonresidential construction contractor shall use e-verify to confirm the identity and legal working status of each employee employed by the nonresidential construction contractor. A subcontractor shall use e-verify to confirm the identity and legal working status of each employee employed by the subcontractor. A labor broker shall use e-verify to confirm the identity and legal working status of each employee employed by the labor broker. (B) A nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker shall keep a record of the verification required by division (A) of this section for three years after the date of hire or one year after the date the employee's employment is terminated, whichever is later. (C) A nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker is not required to comply with division (A) of this section if both of the following apply: (1) The nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has previously verified an employee's employment eligibility using e-verify. (2) The employer is not required to verify or reverify the employee's eligibility to work under section 101(a)(1) of the federal "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," 8 U.S.C. 1324a(b). Last updated January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.15
§ 4117.15. Strike - injunction
Status: in_force

June 27, 2025 Senate Bill 1 - 136th General Assembly (A) Whenever a strike by public employees who are prohibited from striking under division (D)(1) of section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, a strike by other public employees during the pendency of the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, or a strike during the term or extended term of a collective bargaining agreement occurs, the public employer may seek an injunction against the strike in the court of common pleas of the county in which the strike is located. (B) An unfair labor practice by a public employer is not a defense to the injunction proceeding noted in division (A) of this section. Allegations of unfair labor practices during the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code shall receive priority by the state employment relations board. (C) No public employee is entitled to pay or compensation from the public employer for the period engaged in any strike. Last updated April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.54
§ 4141.54. Employees who satisfy availability requirement
Status: in_force

July 11, 2013 House Bill 37 - 130th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, a participating employee who satisfies the availability requirement of division (A)(2) of section 4141.53 of the Revised Code shall not be required to be totally or partially unemployed within the meaning of division (M) or (N) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, shall not be required to file a claim for unemployment compensation benefits pursuant to section 4141.28 of the Revised Code, and shall not be required to meet ability to work, availability for work, and work search requirements that would otherwise be applicable to the participating employee, to receive shared work compensation under the SharedWork Ohio program. (B) The director of job and family services shall establish a schedule of consecutive two-week periods within the effective period of each approved shared work plan for the filing of shared work compensation claims. At the end of each scheduled period, the participating employer, in accordance with procedures prescribed by the director, shall file claims on behalf of the participating employer's participating employees. A participating employee, in accordance with procedures prescribed by the director, shall attest to the hours reported, report any other hours worked for an employer who is not the participating employer, and provide additional information as is requested by the director.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4163.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4163 / § 4163.02
§ 4163.02. Prohibiting production or possession of nuclear material without license
Status: in_force

September 9, 1957 Senate Bill 339 - 102nd General Assembly No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire, or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility or act as an operator of a production or utilization facility wholly within this state unless he has obtained whatever license or permit, if any, is required for engaging in the same type of activity by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 of the United States or by any regulations issued thereunder. This section shall not prohibit or limit or require an additional license for the use of by-product materials for medical purposes by physicians licensed to practice medicine in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4169.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4169 / § 4169.03
§ 4169.03. Registration of passenger tramway operators - application and fees
Status: in_force

December 29, 2023 Senate Bill 131 - 134th General Assembly (A) Before a passenger tramway operator may operate any passenger tramway in the state, the operator shall apply to the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce, on forms prepared by it, for registration by the division. The application shall contain an inventory of the passenger tramways that the applicant intends to operate and other information as the division may reasonably require and shall be accompanied by the following annual fees: (1) Each aerial passenger tramway, five hundred dollars; (2) Each skimobile, two hundred dollars; (3) Each chair lift, two hundred dollars; (4) Each J bar, T bar, or platter pull, one hundred dollars; (5) Each rope tow, fifty dollars; (6) Each wire rope tow, seventy-five dollars; (7) Each conveyor, one hundred dollars. When an operator operates an aerial passenger tramway, a skimobile, or a chair lift during both a winter and summer season, the annual fee shall be one and one-half the above amount for the respective passenger tramway. (B) Upon payment of the appropriate annual fees in accordance with division (A) of this section and successful completion of the inspection described in section 4169.04 of the Revised Code, the division shall issue a registration certificate to the operator. Each certificate shall remain in force until the thirtieth day of September next ensuing. The division shall renew an operator's certificate in accordance with the standard renewal procedure in Chapter 4745. of the Revised Code upon payment of the appropriate annual fees. (C) Money received from the registration fees and from the fines collected pursuant to section 4169.99 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code. (D) No person shall operate a passenger tramway in this state unless the person has been registered by the division. (E) The division shall issue a registration certificate in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to an operator if either of the following applies: (1) The operator is licensed or registered in another state. (2) The operator has satisfactory work experience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a passenger tramway operator in a state that does not issue that license or registration. Last updated December 29, 2023 at 6:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.284 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.284
§ 4141.284. Child support obligations
Status: in_force

October 31, 2001 Senate Bill 99 - 124th General Assembly (A) When a claim for unemployment compensation is filed by an individual who owes child support obligations, the director of job and family services shall notify the state or local child support enforcement agency enforcing the obligation only if the claimant has been determined to be eligible for unemployment compensation. (B) The director shall deduct and withhold from unemployment compensation payable to an individual who owes child support obligations: (1) Any amount required to be deducted and withheld from the unemployment compensation pursuant to legal process, as that term is defined in section 459(i)(5) of the "Social Security Act," as amended by the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996," 100 Stat. 2105, 42 U.S.C. 659, and properly served upon the director, as described in division (C) of this section; or (2) Where division (B)(1) of this section is inapplicable, in the amount determined pursuant to an agreement submitted to the director under section 454(19)(B)(i) of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351, 42 U.S.C. 654, as amended, by the state or local child support enforcement agency; or (3) If neither division (B)(1) nor (2) of this section is applicable, then in the amount specified by the individual. (C) The director shall receive all legal process described in division (B)(1) of this section from each local child support enforcement agency, which legal process was issued by the agency under section 3121.07 of the Revised Code or otherwise was issued by the agency. (D) The amount of unemployment compensation subject to being withheld pursuant to division (B) of this section is that amount that remains payable to the individual after application of any recoupment provisions for recovery of overpayments and after deductions that have been made under this chapter for deductible income received by the individual. (E) Any amount deducted and withheld under division (B) of this section shall be paid to the appropriate state or local child support enforcement agency in the following manner: (1) The director shall determine the amounts that are to be deducted and withheld on a per county basis. (2) For each county, the director shall forward to the local child support enforcement agency of the county, the amount determined for that county under division (E)(1) of this section for disbursement to the obligees or assignees of such support obligations. (F) Any amount deducted and withheld under division (B) of this section shall for all purposes be treated as if it were paid to the individual as unemployment compensation and paid by the individual to the state or local child support agency in satisfaction of the individual's child support obligations. (G) This section applies only if appropriate arrangements have been made for reimbursement by the state or local child support enforcement agency for the administrative costs incurred by the director under this section which are associated with or attributable to child support obligations being enforced by the state or local child support enforcement agency. (H) As used in this section: (1) "Child support obligations" means only obligations that are being enforced pursuant to a plan described in section 454 of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351, 42 U.S.C. 654, as amended, which has been approved by the United States secretary of health and human services under part D of Title IV of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351, 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended. (2) "State child support enforcement agency" means the work unit within the department of job and family services, or the state agency of another state, designated as the single state agency for the administration of the program of child support enforcement pursuant to part D of Title IV of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351, 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended. (3) "Local child support enforcement agency" means a child support enforcement agency or any other agency of a political subdivision of the state operating pursuant to a plan mentioned in division (H)(1) of this section. (4) "Unemployment compensation" means any compensation payable under this chapter including amounts payable by the director pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.131 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.131
§ 4115.131. Contract disputes
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly In the event of a specific contract dispute concerning a prevailing wage determination, a proper wage classification, or a novel or unusual situation pertaining to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce may, upon request by a public authority or by a person having a contract with a public authority, cause to be made such investigation and hearing as the director deems necessary and render a decision embodying the director's findings and conclusions. Unless finally reversed on appeal to the courts, the decision of the director shall form the basis for decision of any complaint on the same facts filed pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.56
§ 4123.56. Compensation in case of temporary disability
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, in the case of temporary disability, an employee shall receive sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the employee's average weekly wage so long as such disability is total, not to exceed a maximum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and not less than a minimum amount of compensation which is equal to thirty-three and one-third per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code unless the employee's wage is less than thirty-three and one-third per cent of the minimum statewide average weekly wage, in which event the employee shall receive compensation equal to the employee's full wages; provided that for the first twelve weeks of total disability the employee shall receive seventy-two per cent of the employee's full weekly wage, but not to exceed a maximum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to the lesser of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code or one hundred per cent of the employee's net take-home weekly wage. In the case of a self-insuring employer, payments shall be for a duration based upon the medical reports of the attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner. If the employer disputes the attending physician's or attending nurse's report, payments may be terminated only upon application and hearing by a district hearing officer pursuant to division (C) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code. Payments shall continue pending the determination of the matter, however payment shall not be made for the period when any employee has returned to work, when an employee's treating physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner has made a written statement that the employee is capable of returning to the employee's former position of employment, when work within the physical capabilities of the employee is made available by the employer or another employer, or when the employee has reached the maximum medical improvement. Where the employee is capable of work activity, but the employee's employer is unable to offer the employee any employment, the employee shall register with the director of job and family services, who shall assist the employee in finding suitable employment. The termination of temporary total disability, whether by order or otherwise, does not preclude the commencement of temporary total disability at another point in time if the employee again becomes temporarily totally disabled. After two hundred weeks of temporary total disability benefits, the bureau of workers' compensation may schedule the claimant for an examination for an evaluation to determine whether or not the temporary disability has become permanent. A self-insuring employer shall notify the bureau immediately after payment of two hundred weeks of temporary total disability. The self-insuring employer may request that the bureau schedule the claimant for an examination to determine whether the temporary disability has become permanent. When the employee is awarded compensation for temporary total disability for a period for which the employee has received benefits under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, the bureau shall pay an amount equal to the amount received from the award to the director of job and family services and the director shall credit the amount to the accounts of the employers to whose accounts the payment of benefits was charged or is chargeable to the extent it was charged or is chargeable. If any compensation under this section has been paid for the same period or periods for which temporary nonoccupational accident and sickness insurance is or has been paid pursuant to an insurance policy or program to which the employer has made the entire contribution or payment for providing insurance or under a nonoccupational accident and sickness program fully funded by the employer, except as otherwise provided in this division compensation paid under this section for the period or periods shall be paid only to the extent by which the payment or payments exceeds the amount of the nonoccupational insurance or program paid or payable. Offset of the compensation shall be made only upon the prior order of the bureau or industrial commission or agreement of the claimant. If an employer provides supplemental sick leave benefits in addition to temporary total disability compensation paid under this section, and if the employer and an employee agree in writing to the payment of the supplemental sick leave benefits, temporary total disability benefits may be paid without an offset for those supplemental sick leave benefits. As used in this division, "net take-home weekly wage" means the amount obtained by dividing an employee's total remuneration, as defined in section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, paid to or earned by the employee during the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters which immediately precede the first day of the employee's entitlement to benefits under this division, by the number of weeks during which the employee was paid or earned remuneration during those four quarters, less the amount of local, state, and federal income taxes deducted for each such week. (B)(1) If an employee in a claim allowed under this chapter suffers a wage loss as a result of returning to employment other than the employee's former position of employment due to an injury or occupational disease, the employee shall receive compensation at sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the difference between the employee's average weekly wage and the employee's present earnings not to exceed the statewide average weekly wage. The payments may continue for up to a maximum of two hundred weeks, but the payments shall be reduced by the corresponding number of weeks in which the employee receives payments pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 4121.67 of the Revised Code. (2) If an employee in a claim allowed under this chapter suffers a wage loss as a result of being unable to find employment consistent with the employee's disability resulting from the employee's injury or occupational disease, the employee shall receive compensation at sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the difference between the employee's average weekly wage and the employee's present earnings, not to exceed the statewide average weekly wage. The payments may continue for up to a maximum of fifty-two weeks. The first twenty-six weeks of payments under division (B)(2) of this section shall be in addition to the maximum of two hundred weeks of payments allowed under division (B)(1) of this section. If an employee in a claim allowed under this chapter receives compensation under division (B)(2) of this section in excess of twenty-six weeks, the number of weeks of compensation allowable under division (B)(1) of this section shall be reduced by the corresponding number of weeks in excess of twenty-six, and up to fifty-two, that is allowable under division (B)(1) of this section. (3) The number of weeks of wage loss payable to an employee under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section shall not exceed two hundred and twenty-six weeks in the aggregate. (C) In the event an employee of a professional sports franchise domiciled in this state is disabled as the result of an injury or occupational disease, the total amount of payments made under a contract of hire or collective bargaining agreement to the employee during a period of disability is deemed an advanced payment of compensation payable under sections 4123.56 to 4123.58 of the Revised Code. The employer shall be reimbursed the total amount of the advanced payments out of any award of compensation made pursuant to sections 4123.56 to 4123.58 of the Revised Code. (D) If an employee receives temporary total disability benefits pursuant to division (A) of this section and social security retirement benefits pursuant to the "Social Security Act," the weekly benefit amount under division (A) of this section shall not exceed sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code. (E) If an employee is eligible for compensation under division (A) of this section, but the employee's full weekly wage has not been determined at the time payments are to commence under division (H) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code, the employee shall receive thirty-three and one-third per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code. On determination of the employee's full weekly wage, the compensation an employee receives shall be adjusted pursuant to division (A) of this section. If the amount of compensation an employee receives under this division is greater than the adjusted amount the employee receives under division (A) of this section that is based on the employee's full weekly wage, the excess amount shall be recovered in the manner provided in division (K) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code. If the amount of compensation an employee receives under this division is less than the adjusted amount the employee receives under that division that is based on the employee's full weekly wage, the employee shall receive the difference between those two amounts. (F) If an employee is unable to work or suffers a wage loss as the direct result of an impairment arising from an injury or occupational disease, the employee is entitled to receive compensation under this section, provided the employee is otherwise qualified. If an employee is not working or has suffered a wage loss as the direct result of reasons unrelated to the allowed injury or occupational disease, the employee is not eligible to receive compensation under this section. It is the intent of the general assembly to supersede any previous judicial decision that applied the doctrine of voluntary abandonment to a claim brought under this section. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.011
§ 4141.011. Employer subject to the unemployment compensation law
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in this section, an employer is subject to this chapter if either of the following apply: (a) The employer had at least one individual in employment for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, whether or not the same individual was in employment in each such day; (b) The employer paid for service in employment wages of fifteen hundred dollars or more in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year. (2) For purposes of division (A)(1)(a) of this section, if any week includes both the thirty-first day of December and the first day of January, the days of that week before the first day of January shall be considered one calendar week and the days to beginning the first day of January another week. (B) If an employer is a nonprofit organization, the employer is subject to this chapter if the employer had at least four individuals in employment for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, whether or not the same individual was in employment in each such day. (C)(1) An employer is subject to this chapter with respect to employment in domestic service in a local college club, local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, or a private home if the employer paid cash remuneration for such employment of at least one thousand dollars in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year. (2) Wages paid to, or employment of, an individual performing domestic service as described in division (C)(1) of this section do not apply to employment or wages for purposes of divisions (A) and (B) of this section. (3) An employer subject to this chapter under division (C)(1) of this section is not subject to this chapter with respect to wages paid for any services other than domestic service unless the employer is also found to be subject to this chapter under division (A), (B), or (D) of this section. (D) If an employer is a farm operator or a crew leader, the employer is subject to this chapter if the employer had individuals in employment in agricultural labor and either of the following apply: (1) The employer paid cash remuneration of twenty thousand dollars or more for the agricultural labor during any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year; (2) The employer had at least ten individuals in employment in agricultural labor, not including agricultural workers who are aliens admitted to the United States to perform agricultural labor pursuant to sections 1184(c) and 1101(a)(15)(H) of the "Immigration and Nationality Act," 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a), 1184(c), for some portion of a day in each of the twenty different calendar weeks, in either the current or preceding calendar year whether or not the same individual was in employment in each day. (E) An employer who is not subject to this chapter under division (A) of this section is subject to this chapter if any of the following apply: (1) Service, except for domestic service in a private home not covered under division (C) of this section, is or was performed within either the current or preceding calendar year, and with respect to which such employer is liable for any federal tax against which credit may be taken for contributions required to be paid into a state unemployment fund; (2) As a condition for approval of this chapter for full tax credit against the tax imposed by the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act," 26 U.S.C. 3301 to 3311, is required, pursuant to such act to be an employer subject to this chapter; (3) The employer became subject to this chapter by election under division (H) or (I) of this section and for the duration of such election. (F) If an employer is any state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions, their instrumentalities, or an Indian tribe, the employer is subject to this chapter if the employer had at least one individual in employment, as defined in divisions (B)(2)(a) and (B)(2)(l) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code. (G) An employer subject to this chapter within any calendar year is subject to this chapter during the whole of such year and during the next succeeding calendar year. (H) An employer not otherwise subject to this chapter who files with the director of job and family services a written election to become an employer subject to this chapter for not less than two calendar years shall, with the written approval of such election by the director, become an employer subject to this chapter to the same extent as all other employers as of the date stated in such approval, and shall cease to be subject to this chapter as of the first day of January of any calendar year subsequent to such two calendar years only if at least thirty days prior to such first day of January the employer has filed with the director a written notice to that effect. (I) Any employer for whom services that do not constitute employment are performed may file with the director a written election that all such services performed by individuals in the employer's employ in one or more distinct establishments or places of business shall be deemed to constitute employment for all the purposes of this chapter, for not less than two calendar years. Upon written approval of the election by the director, such services shall be deemed to constitute employment subject to this chapter from and after the date stated in such approval. Such services shall cease to be employment subject to this chapter as of the first day of January of any calendar year subsequent to such two calendar years only if at least thirty days prior to such first day of January such employer has filed with the director a written notice to that effect. (J) An employer who is a franchisor is not subject to this chapter with respect to the franchisor's relationship with a franchisee or an employee of a franchisee, unless the franchisor agrees to assume that role in writing or a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the franchisor exercises a type or degree of control over the franchisee or the franchisee's employees that is not customarily exercised by a franchisor for the purpose of protecting the franchisor's trademark, brand, or both. For purposes of this division, "franchisor" and "franchisee" have the same meanings as in 16 C.F.R. 436.1. Last updated August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4169.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4169 / § 4169.99
§ 4169.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1981 House Bill 775 - 113th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4169.02 or division (D) of section 4169.03 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates division (E) of section 4169.06 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars for every day that the violation continues. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.05
§ 4117.05. Employee organization to become exclusive representative - procedure
Status: in_force

April 1, 1984 Senate Bill 133 - 115th General Assembly (A) An employee organization becomes the exclusive representative of all the public employees in an appropriate unit for the purposes of collective bargaining by either: (1) Being certified by the state employment relations board when a majority of the voting employees in the unit select the employee organization as their representative in a board-conducted election under section 4117.07 of the Revised Code; (2) Filing a request with a public employer with a copy to the state employment relations board for recognition as an exclusive representative. In the request for recognition, the employee organization shall describe the bargaining unit, shall allege that a majority of the employees in the bargaining unit wish to be represented by the employee organization, and shall support the request with substantial evidence based on, and in accordance with, rules prescribed by the board demonstrating that a majority of the employees in the bargaining unit wish to be represented by the employee organization. Immediately upon receipt of a request, the public employer shall either request an election under division (A)(2) of section 4117.07 of the Revised Code, or take the following action: (a) Post notice in each facility at which employees in the proposed unit are employed, setting forth the description of the bargaining unit, the name of the employee organization requesting recognition, and the date of the request for recognition, and advising employees that objections to certification must be filed with the state employment relations board not later than the twenty-first day following the date of the request for recognition; (b) Immediately notify the state employment relations board of the request for recognition. The state employment relations board shall certify the employee organization filing the request for recognition on the twenty-second day following the filing of the request for recognition, unless by the twenty-first day following the filing of the request for recognition it receives: (i) A petition for an election from the public employer pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 4117.07 of the Revised Code; (ii) Substantial evidence based on, and in accordance with, rules prescribed by the board demonstrating that a majority of the employees in the described bargaining unit do not wish to be represented by the employee organization filing the request for recognition; (iii) Substantial evidence based on, and in accordance with, rules prescribed by the board from another employee organization demonstrating that at least ten per cent of the employees in the described bargaining unit wish to be represented by such other employee organization; or (iv) Substantial evidence based on, and in accordance with, rules prescribed by the board indicating that the proposed unit is not an appropriate unit pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code. (B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit a public employer to recognize, or the state employment relations board to certify, an employee organization as an exclusive representative under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code if there is in effect a lawful written agreement, contract, or memorandum of understanding between the public employer and another employee organization which, on the effective date of this section, has been recognized by a public employer as the exclusive representative of the employees in a unit or which by tradition, custom, practice, election, or negotiation has been the only employee organization representing all employees in the unit; this restriction does not apply to that period of time covered by any agreement which exceeds three years. For the purposes of this section, extensions of agreement do not affect the expiration of the original agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.13
§ 4105.13. Safety equipment - vertical wheelchair lifts
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly Every elevator shall be constructed, equipped, maintained, and operated, with respect to the supporting members, elevator car, shaftways, guides, cables, doors, and gates, safety stops and mechanism, electrical apparatus and wiring, mechanical apparatus, counterweights, and all other appurtenances, in accordance with state laws and rules as are authorized in respect thereto. Where reasonable safety is obtained without complying to the literal requirements of such rules as in cases of practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship, the literal requirements of such rules shall not be required. The superintendent of industrial compliance may permit the installation of vertical wheelchair lifts in public buildings to provide for accessibility for persons with disabilities where such lifts do not meet the literal requirements of the rules adopted by the board of building standards pursuant to section 4105.011 of the Revised Code, provided that reasonable safety may be obtained. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4127.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4127 / § 4127.07
§ 4127.07. Contributions to fund
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly Every employer shall contribute to the public work-relief employees' compensation fund the amount of money determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. The contributions may be made in whole or in part out of any relief funds or any other available public funds, regardless of the manner in which the funds were raised. The officer of any employer having charge of the expenditures of funds for relief purposes, shall set aside and maintain as a special fund out of which contributions to the work-relief employees' compensation fund may be made, an amount equal to the percentage of the work-relief funds as the administrator determines on an actuarial basis as is reasonably necessary to cover the premium obligations of the employer. The manner of determining the contributions and classifications of employers, shall be the same as is provided in sections 4123.39 to 4123.41 and 4123.48 of the Revised Code, and such sections shall apply in so far as they are applicable to the employers, but rates of premium shall be applied to insure solvency of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund at all times. The state relief commission or any other state agency having supervision or control of work-relief employees, either directly or through agencies, shall file reports and make payments of premiums out of any fund under its control or supervision, in the amount and manner, and at the time, as is determined by the administrator; and the furnishing of the reports and the payment of the premiums by the state agency, for work-relief employees, shall relieve the state of the obligations set forth in sections 4123.40 , 4123.41 , and 4123.48 of the Revised Code, with respect to contributing to the public work-relief employees' compensation fund for work-relief employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.04
§ 4117.04. Public employers exclusive representative
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly (A) Public employers shall extend to an exclusive representative designated under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code, the right to represent exclusively the employees in the appropriate bargaining unit and the right to unchallenged and exclusive representation for a period of not less than twelve months following the date of certification and thereafter, if the public employer and the employee organization enter into an agreement, for a period of not more than three years from the date of signing the agreement. For the purposes of this section, extensions of agreements shall not be construed to affect the expiration date of the original agreement. (B) A public employer shall bargain collectively with an exclusive representative designated under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code. When the state employment relations board notifies a public employer that it has certified an employee organization as exclusive representative for a unit of its employees, the public employer shall designate an employer representative and promptly notify the board and the employee organization of his identity and address. On certification, the employee organization shall designate an employee representative and promptly notify the board and the public employer of his identity and address. The board or any party shall address to the appropriate designated representative all communications concerned with collective relationships under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code. In the case of municipal corporations, counties, school districts, educational service centers, villages, and townships, the designation of the employer representative is as provided in division (C) of section 4117.10 of the Revised Code. The designated representative of a party may sign agreements resulting from collective bargaining on behalf of his designator; but the agreements are subject to the procedures set forth in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.16
§ 4105.16. Permit for erection or repair - final inspection
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Before any new installation of an elevator of permanent nature is erected or before any existing elevator is removed to and installed in a different location, an application of specifications in duplicate shall be submitted to the division of industrial compliance giving such information concerning the construction, installation, and operation of said elevator as the division may require on forms to be furnished by the division, together with complete construction plans in duplicate. In all cases where any changes or repairs are made which alter its construction of classification, grade or rated lifting capacity, except when made pursuant to a report of an inspector, an application of specifications in duplicate shall be submitted to the division, containing such information, or approval, except in those municipal corporations which maintain their own elevator inspection departments, in which event such specifications shall be submitted to the elevator department of the municipal corporation for its approval, and if approved, a permit for the erection or repair of such elevator shall be issued by the municipal corporation. Upon approval of such application and construction plans, the superintendent of industrial compliance shall issue a permit for the erection or repair of such elevator. No new elevator shall be operated until completion in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, unless a temporary permit is granted by the division. The final inspection, before operation, of a permanent, new or repaired elevator shall be made by a general inspector or a special inspector designated by the superintendent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.28
§ 4121.28. Order of bureau of workers' compensation not stayed by pendency of action
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly The pendency of an action to set aside, vacate, or amend an order of the bureau of workers' compensation shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of an order of the bureau, but during the pendency of the action the supreme court may stay or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the bureau's order. No order so staying or suspending an order of the bureau shall be made by the supreme court otherwise than upon three days' notice and after hearing. In case the order is stayed or suspended the order of the supreme court shall not become effective until a suspending bond has first been executed and filed with and approved by the bureau, or by the supreme court or the clerk thereof, payable to the state and sufficient in amount and security to insure the prompt payment by the party petitioning to set aside, vacate, or amend the order of all damages caused by the delay in the enforcement of the order of the bureau.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.78 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.78
§ 4123.78. Recording of certificate of noncompliance
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly If any employer fails to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code in accordance with the rules of the administrator of workers' compensation, the administrator shall file with the county recorder of any counties in which the employer's property is located, its certificate of the amount of premium due from the employer, and that amount shall be a lien from the date of filing against the real property and personal property of the employer within the county in which the certificate is filed. The county recorder shall record and index the certificate in the official record. The county recorder shall make no charge for the services provided by this section to be performed by the county recorder.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4171.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4171 / § 4171.10
§ 4171.10. Assumption of risk is complete defense
Status: in_force

April 9, 2003 Senate Bill 120 - 124th General Assembly The express assumption of risk set forth in section 4171.09 of the Revised Code shall serve as a complete defense in a tort or other civil action against an operator by a roller skater for injuries resulting from the assumed risks of roller skating. The comparative negligence or other tort provisions of sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code shall not apply unless the operator has breached the operator's duties pursuant to sections 4171.06 and 4171.07 of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4163.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4163 / § 4163.06
§ 4163.06. Injunctions against production or possession of nuclear material without license
Status: in_force

September 9, 1957 Senate Bill 339 - 102nd General Assembly Whenever, in the opinion of the attorney general, any person is violating or is about to violate section 4163.02 of the Revised Code, the attorney general may apply to the appropriate court for an order enjoining the person from engaging or continuing to engage in the activity violative of said section and upon a showing that such person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any such activity, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order may be granted.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.35
§ 4141.35. Fraudulent misrepresentations to obtain benefits - other reasons
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) If the director of job and family services finds that any fraudulent misrepresentation has been made by an applicant for or a recipient of benefits with the object of obtaining benefits to which the applicant or recipient was not entitled, and in addition to any other penalty or forfeiture under this chapter, then the director: (1) Shall within four years after the end of the benefit year in which the fraudulent misrepresentation was made reject or cancel such person's entire weekly claim for benefits that was fraudulently claimed, or the person's entire benefit rights if the misrepresentation was in connection with the filing of the claimant's application for determination of benefit rights; (2) Shall by order declare that, for each application for benefit rights and for each weekly claim canceled, such person shall be ineligible for two otherwise valid weekly claims for benefits, claimed within six years subsequent to the discovery of such misrepresentation; (3) By order shall require that the total amount of benefits rejected or canceled under division (A)(1) of this section be repaid to the director before such person may become eligible for further benefits, and shall withhold such unpaid sums from future benefit payments accruing and otherwise payable to such claimant. Effective with orders issued on or after January 1, 1993, if such benefits are not repaid within thirty days after the director's order becomes final, interest on the amount remaining unpaid shall be charged to the person at a rate and calculated in the same manner as provided under section 4141.23 of the Revised Code. When a person ordered to repay benefits has repaid all overpaid benefits according to a plan approved by the director, the director may cancel the amount of interest that accrued during the period of the repayment plan. The director may take action in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect benefits and interest as provided in sections 4141.23 and 4141.27 of the Revised Code, in regard to the collection of unpaid contributions, using the final repayment order as the basis for such action. Except as otherwise provided in this division, no administrative or legal proceedings for the collection of such benefits or interest due, or for the collection of a penalty under division (A)(4) of this section, shall be initiated after the expiration of six years from the date on which the director's order requiring repayment became final and the amount of any benefits, penalty, or interest not recovered at that time, and any liens thereon, shall be canceled as uncollectible. The time limit for instituting proceedings shall be extended by the period of any stay to the collection or by any other time period to which the parties mutually agree. (4) Shall, for findings made on or after October 21, 2013, by order assess a mandatory penalty on such a person in an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of the total amount of benefits rejected or canceled under division (A)(1) of this section. The first sixty per cent of each penalty collected under division (A)(4) of this section shall be deposited into the unemployment compensation fund created under section 4141.09 of the Revised Code and shall be credited to the mutualized account, as provided in division (B)(2)(g) of section 4141.25 of the Revised Code. The remainder of each penalty collected shall be deposited into the unemployment compensation special administrative fund created under section 4141.11 of the Revised Code. (5) May take action to collect benefits fraudulently obtained under the unemployment compensation law of any other state or the United States or Canada. Such action may be initiated in the courts of this state in the same manner as provided for unpaid contributions in section 4141.41 of the Revised Code. (6) May take action to collect benefits that have been fraudulently obtained from the director, interest pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section, and court costs, through attachment proceedings under Chapter 2715. of the Revised Code and garnishment proceedings under Chapter 2716. of the Revised Code. (B) If the director finds that an applicant for benefits has been credited with a waiting period or paid benefits to which the applicant was not entitled for reasons other than fraudulent misrepresentation, the director shall: (1)(a) Within six months after the determination under which the claimant was credited with that waiting period or paid benefits becomes final pursuant to section 4141.28 of the Revised Code, or within three years after the end of the benefit year in which such benefits were claimed, whichever is later, by order cancel such waiting period and require that such benefits be repaid to the director or be withheld from any benefits to which such applicant is or may become entitled before any additional benefits are paid, provided that the repayment or withholding shall not be required where the overpayment is the result of the director's correcting a prior decision due to a typographical or clerical error in the director's prior decision, or an error in an employer's report under division (G) of section 4141.28 of the Revised Code. (b) The limitation specified in division (B)(1)(a) of this section shall not apply to cases involving the retroactive payment of remuneration covering periods for which benefits were previously paid to the claimant. However, in such cases, the director's order requiring repayment shall not be issued unless the director is notified of such retroactive payment within six months from the date the retroactive payment was made to the claimant. (2) The director may, by reciprocal agreement with the United States secretary of labor or another state, recover overpayment amounts from unemployment benefits otherwise payable to an individual under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code. Any overpayments made to the individual that have not previously been recovered under an unemployment benefit program of the United States may be recovered in accordance with section 303(g) of the "Social Security Act" and sections 3304(a)(4) and 3306(f) of the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act," 53 Stat. 183 (1939), 26 U.S.C.A. 3301 to 3311. (3) If the amounts required to be repaid under division (B) of this section are not recovered within three years from the date the director's order requiring payment became final, initiate no further action to collect such benefits and the amount of any benefits not recovered at that time shall be canceled as uncollectible, provided that the time limit for collection shall be extended by the period of any stay to the collection or by any other time period to which the parties mutually agree. (C) The appeal provisions of sections 4141.281 and 4141.282 of the Revised Code shall apply to all orders and determinations issued under this section, except that an individual's right of appeal under division (B)(2) of this section shall be limited to this state's authority to recover overpayment of benefits. (D) The director shall deposit any repayment collected under this section that the director determines to be payment of interest or court costs into the unemployment compensation special administrative fund established pursuant to section 4141.11 of the Revised Code. (E) If an individual makes a full repayment or a repayment that is less than the full amount required by this section, the director shall apply the repayment to the mutualized account under division (B) of section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, except that the director shall credit the repayment to the accounts of the individual's base period employers that previously have not been credited for the amount of improperly paid benefits charged against their accounts based on the proportion of benefits charged against the accounts as determined pursuant to division (D) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. This division does not apply to any of the following: (1) Federal tax refund offsets under 31 C.F.R. 285.8; (2) Unclaimed fund recoveries under section 131.024 of the Revised Code; (3) Lottery award offsets under section 3770.073 of the Revised Code; (4) State tax refund offsets under section 5747.12 of the Revised Code; (5) Unemployment compensation debts collected by the attorney general under Chapter 131. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.60
§ 4141.60. Annual report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services annually shall prepare a report and submit it by the first day of August to the persons listed in division (B) of this section. The director shall include all of the following information in the report with respect to the calendar year preceding the date the report is submitted: (1) The number of calls received from applicants for and recipients of benefits under this chapter at all call centers operated by the director; (2) The total number of claims for benefits filed under this chapter; (3) The number of claims for benefits marked as potentially fraudulent; (4) The number of complaints submitted by applicants for and recipients of benefits under this chapter through the uniform process created by the director under section 4141.13 of the Revised Code; (5) A summary of updates or changes to the technology the director uses to administer this chapter that have occurred during the calendar year covered by the report. (B) The director shall submit the report required under division (A) of this section to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the governor. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.071
§ 4115.071. Prevailing wage coordinator
Status: in_force

June 30, 2017 House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Each contracting public authority that enters into a contract other than a contract for printing, binding, and related services, whose contractor and subcontractors are subject to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code shall, no later than ten days before the first payment of wages is payable to any employee of any contractor or subcontractor, designate and appoint one of its own employees to serve as the prevailing wage coordinator during the life of the contract. The duties of the coordinator shall include: (1) Setting up and maintaining, available for public inspection including inspection by interested parties or affected employees, files of payroll reports and affidavits submitted by contractors and subcontractors pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code; (2) Ascertaining from each contractor or subcontractor, at the beginning of performance under the contract, the dates during its life when payments of wages to employees are to be made; (3) Receiving from each contractor or subcontractor, a copy of the contractor's or subcontractor's complete payroll for each date exhibiting for each employee paid any wages, the employee's name, current address, last four digits of the employee's social security number, number of hours worked each day during the pay period and the total for each week, the employee's hourly rate of pay, the employee's job classification, fringe payments, and deductions from the employee's wages; (4) Establishing and following procedures to monitor the compliance by each contractor and subcontractor with the requirement imposed by this section for timely filing of copies of payroll records; (5) Receiving from each contractor or subcontractor upon completion of the public improvement and prior to final payment therefor the affidavit required by section 4115.07 of the Revised Code; (6) Reporting any delinquency in the filing of the certified copy of the payroll and the affidavit to the chief officer of the contracting public authority and the director of commerce. (B) Any contracting public authority having a permanent employee with the title, powers, and functions described in division (A) of this section for the prevailing wage coordinator need not separately designate and appoint an employee for each public work contract entered into by the contracting public authority. (C) Every contractor and subcontractor who is subject to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code shall, upon beginning performance under the contractor's or subcontractor's contract with any contracting public authority, supply to the prevailing wage coordinator of the contracting public authority a schedule of the dates during the life of the contract with the authority on which the contractor or subcontractor is required to pay wages to employees. The contractor or subcontractor shall also deliver to the prevailing wage coordinator a certified copy of the contractor's or subcontractor's payroll, within two weeks after the initial pay date, and supplemental reports for each month thereafter which shall exhibit for each employee paid any wages, the employee's name, current address, last four digits of the employee's social security number, number of hours worked during each day of the pay periods covered and the total for each week, the employee's hourly rate of pay, the employee's job classification, fringe payments, and deductions from the employee's wages. If the life of the contract is expected to be no more than four months from the beginning of performance by the contractor or subcontractor, such supplemental reports shall be filed each week after the initial report. The certification of each payroll shall be executed by the contractor, subcontractor, or duly appointed agent thereof and shall recite that the payroll is correct and complete and that the wage rates shown are not less than those required by the contract. (D) If it is found that a public authority or prevailing wage coordinator has not complied with this section, the director shall give notice thereof in writing to the public authority or prevailing wage coordinator. Sufficient time shall be allowed for compliance as the director deems necessary. At the expiration of the time prescribed in the notice, the director shall, in writing, inform the attorney general of the fact that notice has been given and that the public authority or prevailing wage coordinator to whom it was directed has not complied with it. On receipt thereof, the attorney general shall bring suit in the name of the state in the court of common pleas of the county in which the public authority is located, to require the public authority or prevailing wage coordinator to comply with this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.06
§ 4133.06. Employer for purposes of taxes and economic incentives
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly (A) For purposes of determining tax credits and other economic incentives that are provided by this state or any political subdivision and based on employment, worksite employees under an alternate employer organization agreement shall be considered employees solely of the client employer. (1) A client employer shall be entitled to the benefit of any tax credit, economic incentive, or similar benefit arising as the result of the client employer's employment of worksite employees. If the grant or amount of any tax credit, economic incentive, or other benefit is based on number of employees, each client employer shall be treated as employing only those worksite employees employed by the client employer. Worksite employees working for other client employers of the alternate employer organization shall not be counted as employees for that purpose. (2) Upon request by a client employer or an agency or department of this state, an alternate employer organization shall provide employment information reasonably required by the agency or department responsible for administration of the tax credit or economic incentive and necessary to support any request, claim, application, or other action by a client employer seeking the tax credit or economic incentive. (B) Worksite employees whose services are subject to sales tax shall be considered the employees of the client employer for purposes of collecting and levying sales tax on the services performed by the worksite employee. Nothing contained in this chapter shall relieve a client employer or alternate employer organization of any sales tax liability with respect to its goods or services. (C) Any tax assessed on a per capita or per employee basis shall be assessed against the client employer for worksite employees and against the alternate employer organization for employees of the alternate employer organization who are not worksite employees employed with a client employer. (D) For purposes of computing any tax that is imposed or calculated upon the basis of total payroll, the alternate employer organization shall be eligible to use any small business allowance or exemption based solely on the employees of the alternate employer organization who are not worksite employees with any client employer. The eligibility of a client employer for the allowance or exemption shall be based solely upon the payroll of the employees of the client employer, including any worksite employees employed by the client employer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.13
§ 4101.13. Duties of employees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy, or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person. No employee shall interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment, or frequenter of such place of employment, or fail to follow and obey orders and to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees and frequenters.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.01
§ 4112.01. Civil rights commission definitions
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of persons. "Person" also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, appraiser, agent, employee, lending institution, and the state and all political subdivisions, authorities, agencies, boards, and commissions of the state. (2) "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state, or a person employing four or more persons within the state, and any agent of the state, political subdivision, or person. (3) "Employee" means an individual employed by any employer but does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person. (4) "Labor organization" includes any organization that exists, in whole or in part, for the purpose of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment. (5) "Employment agency" includes any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer, or place employees. (6) "Commission" means the Ohio civil rights commission created by section 4112.03 of the Revised Code. (7) "Discriminate" includes segregate or separate. (8) "Unlawful discriminatory practice" means any act prohibited by section 4112.02 , 4112.021 , or 4112.022 of the Revised Code. (9) "Place of public accommodation" means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land, or water, theater, store, other place for the sale of merchandise, or any other place of public accommodation or amusement of which the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges are available to the public. (10) "Housing accommodations" includes any building or structure, or portion of a building or structure, that is used or occupied or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as the home residence, dwelling, dwelling unit, or sleeping place of one or more individuals, groups, or families whether or not living independently of each other; and any vacant land offered for sale or lease. "Housing accommodations" also includes any housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesperson, or agent, by any other person pursuant to authorization of the owner, by the owner, or by the owner's legal representative. (11) "Restrictive covenant" means any specification limiting the transfer, rental, lease, or other use of any housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, national origin, disability, or ancestry, or any limitation based upon affiliation with or approval by any person, directly or indirectly, employing race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, national origin, disability, or ancestry as a condition of affiliation or approval. (12) "Burial lot" means any lot for the burial of deceased persons within any public burial ground or cemetery, including, but not limited to, cemeteries owned and operated by municipal corporations, townships, or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes. (13) "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including the functions of caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working; a record of a physical or mental impairment; or being regarded as having a physical or mental impairment. (14) Except as otherwise provided in section 4112.021 of the Revised Code, "age" means an individual aged forty years or older. (15) "Familial status" means either of the following: (a) One or more individuals who are under eighteen years of age and who are domiciled with a parent or guardian having legal custody of the individual or domiciled, with the written permission of the parent or guardian having legal custody, with a designee of the parent or guardian; (b) Any person who is pregnant or in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who is under eighteen years of age. (16)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(16)(b) of this section, "physical or mental impairment" includes any of the following: (i) Any physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological; musculoskeletal; special sense organs; respiratory, including speech organs; cardiovascular; reproductive; digestive; genito-urinary; hemic and lymphatic; skin; and endocrine; (ii) Any mental or psychological disorder, including, but not limited to, intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities; (iii) Diseases and conditions, including, but not limited to, orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus infection, intellectual disability, emotional illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. (b) "Physical or mental impairment" does not include any of the following: (i) Homosexuality and bisexuality; (ii) Transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders; (iii) Compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania; (iv) Psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from the current illegal use of a controlled substance or the current use of alcoholic beverages. (17) "Dwelling unit" means a single unit of residence for a family of one or more persons. (18) "Common use areas" means rooms, spaces, or elements inside or outside a building that are made available for the use of residents of the building or their guests, and includes, but is not limited to, hallways, lounges, lobbies, laundry rooms, refuse rooms, mail rooms, recreational areas, and passageways among and between buildings. (19) "Public use areas" means interior or exterior rooms or spaces of a privately or publicly owned building that are made available to the general public. (20) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (21) "Disabled tenant" means a tenant or prospective tenant who is a person with a disability. (22) "Military status" means a person's status in "service in the uniformed services" as defined in section 5923.05 of the Revised Code. (23) "Aggrieved person" includes both of the following: (a) Any person who claims to have been injured by any unlawful discriminatory practice described in division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code; (b) Any person who believes that the person will be injured by any unlawful discriminatory practice described in division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code that is about to occur. (24) "Unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment" means both of the following: (a) An unlawful discriminatory practice that is prohibited by division (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), or (F) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code; (b) An unlawful discriminatory practice that is prohibited by division (I) or (J) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code that is related to employment. (25) "Notice of right to sue" means a notice sent by the commission to a person who files a charge under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code that states that the person who filed the charge may bring a civil action related to the charge pursuant to section 4112.052 or 4112.14 of the Revised Code, in accordance with section 4112.052 of the Revised Code. (B) For the purposes of divisions (A) to (F) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code, the terms "because of sex" and "on the basis of sex" include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, any illness arising out of and occurring during the course of a pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work, and nothing in division (B) of section 4111.17 of the Revised Code shall be interpreted to permit otherwise. This division shall not be construed to require an employer to pay for health insurance benefits for abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or except where medical complications have arisen from the abortion, provided that nothing in this division precludes an employer from providing abortion benefits or otherwise affects bargaining agreements in regard to abortion.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.17
§ 4117.17. Board proceedings are public records
Status: in_force

April 1, 1984 Senate Bill 133 - 115th General Assembly Formal charges, petitions, complaints, orders, evidence, fact-finding recommendations, and other proceedings instituted by the state employment relations board under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code are public records and available for inspection or copying subject to rules made by the board. All hearings on complaints or petitions pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code are open to the public.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.09
§ 4125.09. Existing collective bargaining agreement unaffected
Status: in_force

November 5, 2004 House Bill 183 - 125th General Assembly Nothing contained in this chapter or in any professional employer organization agreement shall affect, modify, or amend any collective bargaining agreement that exists on the effective date of this section. Nothing in this chapter shall alter the rights or obligations of any client employer, professional employer organization, or shared employee under the "National Labor Relations Act," 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C.A. 151 et seq., the "Railway Labor Act," 44 Stat. 577, 45 U.S.C.A. 151, or any other applicable federal or state law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.283 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.283
§ 4141.283. Unemployment due to labor dispute
Status: in_force

September 5, 2005 Senate Bill 81 - 126th General Assembly (A) Whenever the director of job and family services has reason to believe that the unemployment of twenty-five or more individuals relates to a labor dispute, the director, within five calendar days after their claims are filed, shall schedule a hearing concerning the reason for unemployment. Notice of the hearing shall be sent to all interested parties, including the duly authorized representative of the parties. The hearing date shall be scheduled so as to provide at least ten days' prior notice of the time and date of the hearing. A similar hearing, in such cases, may be scheduled when there is a dispute as to the duration or ending date of the labor dispute. (B) The director shall appoint a hearing officer to conduct the hearing of the case under division (A) of this section. The hearing officer is not bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, but shall take any steps that are reasonable and necessary to obtain the facts and determine whether the claimants are entitled to benefits under the law. The failure of any interested party to appear at the hearing shall not preclude a decision based upon all the facts available to the hearing officer. The proceeding at the hearing shall be recorded by mechanical means or by other means prescribed by the director. The record need not be transcribed unless an application for appeal is filed on the decision and the chairperson of the unemployment compensation review commission requests a transcript of the hearing within fourteen days after the application for appeal is received by the commission. The director shall prescribe rules concerning the conduct of the hearings and all related matters and appoint an attorney to direct the operation of this function. (C) The director shall issue the hearing officer's decisions and reasons therefor on the case within ten calendar days after the hearing. The hearing officer's decision issued by the director is final unless an application for appeal is filed with the commission within twenty-one days after the decision was mailed to all interested parties. The director, within the twenty-one-day appeal period, may remove and vacate the decision and issue a revised determination and appeal date. (D) Upon receipt of the application for appeal, the full commission shall review the director's decision, and then schedule a further hearing on the case, disallow the application without further hearing, or modify or reverse the director's decision. The commission shall review the director's decision within fourteen days after receipt of the decision or the receipt of a transcript requested under division (B) of this section, whichever is later. (1) When a further hearing is granted, the commission shall make the director's decision and record of the case, as certified by the director, a part of the record and shall consider the director's decision and record in arriving at a decision on the case. The commission's decision affirming, modifying, or reversing the director's decision, following the further appeal, shall be mailed to all interested parties within fourteen days after the hearing. (2) A decision to disallow a further appeal or to modify or reverse the director's decision shall be mailed to all interested parties within fourteen days after the commission makes the decision. A disallowance is deemed an affirmation of the director's decision. (3) The time limits specified in this section may be extended by agreement of all interested parties or for cause beyond the control of the director or the commission. (E) Except as otherwise specified in this division, an appeal of the commission's decision issued under division (D) of this section may be taken to the court of common pleas as provided in section 4141.282 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding division (B) of section 4141.282 of the Revised Code: (1) If the operations of an employer involved in a labor dispute under this section are located in only one county, then appeal of the commission's decision under division (D) of this section shall be taken to the court of common pleas of the county where the employer's operations are located. (2) If the operations of an employer involved in a labor dispute under this section are located in more than one county, then appeal of the commission's decision under division (D) of this section shall be taken to the court of common pleas of the county where the largest number of the claimants worked for the employer. (F) A labor dispute decision involving fewer than twenty-five individuals shall be determined under section 4141.28 of the Revised Code, and the commission shall determine any appeal from the decision pursuant to section 4141.281 of the Revised Code and within the time limits provided in division (D) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.68 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.68
§ 4123.68. Schedule of compensable occupational diseases
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly Every employee who is disabled because of the contraction of an occupational disease or the dependent of an employee whose death is caused by an occupational disease, is entitled to the compensation provided by sections 4123.55 to 4123.59 and 4123.66 of the Revised Code subject to the modifications relating to occupational diseases contained in this chapter. An order of the administrator issued under this section is appealable pursuant to sections 4123.511 and 4123.512 of the Revised Code. The following diseases are occupational diseases and compensable as such when contracted by an employee in the course of the employment in which such employee was engaged and due to the nature of any process described in this section. A disease which meets the definition of an occupational disease is compensable pursuant to this chapter though it is not specifically listed in this section. SCHEDULE Description of disease or injury and description of process: (A) Anthrax: Handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides, and skins. (B) Glanders: Care of any equine animal having glanders; handling carcass of such animal. (C) Lead poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of lead or its preparations or compounds. (D) Mercury poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of mercury or its preparations or compounds. (E) Phosphorous poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of phosphorous or its preparations or compounds. (F) Arsenic poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of arsenic or its preparations or compounds. (G) Poisoning by benzol or by nitro-derivatives and amido-derivatives of benzol (dinitro-benzol, anilin, and others): Any industrial process involving the use of benzol or nitro-derivatives or amido-derivatives of benzol or its preparations or compounds. (H) Poisoning by gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other volatile petroleum products: Any industrial process involving the use of gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other volatile petroleum products. (I) Poisoning by carbon bisulphide: Any industrial process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or compounds. (J) Poisoning by wood alcohol: Any industrial process involving the use of wood alcohol or its preparations. (K) Infection or inflammation of the skin on contact surfaces due to oils, cutting compounds or lubricants, dust, liquids, fumes, gases, or vapors: Any industrial process involving the handling or use of oils, cutting compounds or lubricants, or involving contact with dust, liquids, fumes, gases, or vapors. (L) Epithelion cancer or ulceration of the skin or of the corneal surface of the eye due to carbon, pitch, tar, or tarry compounds: Handling or industrial use of carbon, pitch, or tarry compounds. (M) Compressed air illness: Any industrial process carried on in compressed air. (N) Carbon dioxide poisoning: Any process involving the evolution or resulting in the escape of carbon dioxide. (O) Brass or zinc poisoning: Any process involving the manufacture, founding, or refining of brass or the melting or smelting of zinc. (P) Manganese dioxide poisoning: Any process involving the grinding or milling of manganese dioxide or the escape of manganese dioxide dust. (Q) Radium poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of radium and other radioactive substances in luminous paint. (R) Tenosynovitis and prepatellar bursitis: Primary tenosynovitis characterized by a passive effusion or crepitus into the tendon sheath of the flexor or extensor muscles of the hand, due to frequently repetitive motions or vibrations, or prepatellar bursitis due to continued pressure. (S) Chrome ulceration of the skin or nasal passages: Any industrial process involving the use of or direct contact with chromic acid or bichromates of ammonium, potassium, or sodium or their preparations. (T) Potassium cyanide poisoning: Any industrial process involving the use of or direct contact with potassium cyanide. (U) Sulphur dioxide poisoning: Any industrial process in which sulphur dioxide gas is evolved by the expansion of liquid sulphur dioxide. (V) Berylliosis: Berylliosis means a disease of the lungs caused by breathing beryllium in the form of dust or fumes, producing characteristic changes in the lungs and demonstrated by x-ray examination, by biopsy or by autopsy. This chapter does not entitle an employee or the employee's dependents to compensation, medical treatment, or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death from berylliosis unless the employee has been subjected to injurious exposure to beryllium dust or fumes in the employee's employment in this state preceding the employee's disablement and only in the event of such disability or death resulting within eight years after the last injurious exposure; provided that such eight-year limitation does not apply to disability or death from exposure occurring after January 1, 1976. In the event of death following continuous total disability commencing within eight years after the last injurious exposure, the requirement of death within eight years after the last injurious exposure does not apply. Before awarding compensation for partial or total disability or death due to berylliosis, the administrator of workers' compensation shall refer the claim to a qualified medical specialist for examination and recommendation with regard to the diagnosis, the extent of the disability, the nature of the disability, whether permanent or temporary, the cause of death, and other medical questions connected with the claim. An employee shall submit to such examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, as the administrator requires. In the event that an employee refuses to submit to examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, after notice from the administrator, or in the event that a claimant for compensation for death due to berylliosis fails to produce necessary consents and permits, after notice from the administrator, so that such autopsy examination and tests may be performed, then all rights for compensation are forfeited. The reasonable compensation of such specialist and the expenses of examinations and tests shall be paid, if the claim is allowed, as part of the expenses of the claim, otherwise they shall be paid from the surplus fund. (W) Cardiovascular, pulmonary, or respiratory diseases incurred by firefighters or police officers following exposure to heat, smoke, toxic gases, chemical fumes and other toxic substances: Any cardiovascular, pulmonary, or respiratory disease of a firefighter or police officer caused or induced by the cumulative effect of exposure to heat, the inhalation of smoke, toxic gases, chemical fumes and other toxic substances in the performance of the firefighter's or police officer's duty constitutes a presumption, which may be refuted by affirmative evidence, that such occurred in the course of and arising out of the firefighter's or police officer's employment. For the purpose of this section, "firefighter" means any regular member of a lawfully constituted fire department of a municipal corporation or township, whether paid or volunteer, and "police officer" means any regular member of a lawfully constituted police department of a municipal corporation, township or county, whether paid or volunteer. This chapter does not entitle a firefighter, or police officer, or the firefighter's or police officer's dependents to compensation, medical treatment, or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death from a cardiovascular, pulmonary, or respiratory disease, unless the firefighter or police officer has been subject to injurious exposure to heat, smoke, toxic gases, chemical fumes, and other toxic substances in the firefighter's or police officer's employment in this state preceding the firefighter's or police officer's disablement, some portion of which has been after January 1, 1967, except as provided in division (E) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code. Compensation on account of cardiovascular, pulmonary, or respiratory diseases of firefighters and police officers is payable only in the event of temporary total disability, permanent total disability, or death, in accordance with section 4123.56 , 4123.58 , or 4123.59 of the Revised Code. Medical, hospital, and nursing expenses are payable in accordance with this chapter. Compensation, medical, hospital, and nursing expenses are payable only in the event of such disability or death resulting within eight years after the last injurious exposure; provided that such eight-year limitation does not apply to disability or death from exposure occurring after January 1, 1976. In the event of death following continuous total disability commencing within eight years after the last injurious exposure, the requirement of death within eight years after the last injurious exposure does not apply. This chapter does not entitle a firefighter or police officer, or the firefighter's or police officer's dependents, to compensation, medical, hospital, and nursing expenses, or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death due to a cardiovascular, pulmonary, or respiratory disease in the event of failure or omission on the part of the firefighter or police officer truthfully to state, when seeking employment, the place, duration, and nature of previous employment in answer to an inquiry made by the employer. Before awarding compensation for disability or death under this division, the administrator shall refer the claim to a qualified medical specialist for examination and recommendation with regard to the diagnosis, the extent of disability, the cause of death, and other medical questions connected with the claim. A firefighter or police officer shall submit to such examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, as the administrator requires. In the event that a firefighter or police officer refuses to submit to examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, after notice from the administrator, or in the event that a claimant for compensation for death under this division fails to produce necessary consents and permits, after notice from the administrator, so that such autopsy examination and tests may be performed, then all rights for compensation are forfeited. The reasonable compensation of such specialists and the expenses of examination and tests shall be paid, if the claim is allowed, as part of the expenses of the claim, otherwise they shall be paid from the surplus fund. (X)(1) Cancer contracted by a firefighter: Cancer contracted by a firefighter who has been assigned to at least six years of hazardous duty as a firefighter constitutes a presumption that the cancer was contracted in the course of and arising out of the firefighter's employment if the firefighter was exposed to an agent classified by the international agency for research on cancer or its successor organization as a group 1 or 2A carcinogen. (2) The presumption described in division (X)(1) of this section is rebuttable in any of the following situations: (a) There is evidence that the firefighter's exposure, outside the scope of the firefighter's official duties, to cigarettes, tobacco products, or other conditions presenting an extremely high risk for the development of the cancer alleged, was probably a significant factor in the cause or progression of the cancer. (b) There is evidence that shows, by a preponderance of competent scientific evidence, that exposure to the type of carcinogen alleged did not or could not have caused the cancer being alleged. (c) There is evidence that the firefighter was not exposed to an agent classified by the international agency for research on cancer as a group 1 or 2A carcinogen. (d) There is evidence that the firefighter incurred the type of cancer alleged before becoming a member of the fire department. (e) The firefighter is seventy years of age or older. (3) The presumption described in division (X)(1) of this section does not apply if it has been more than fifteen years since the firefighter was last assigned to hazardous duty as a firefighter. (4) Compensation for cancer contracted by a firefighter in the course of hazardous duty under division (X) of this section is payable only in the event of temporary total disability, working wage loss, permanent total disability, or death, in accordance with division (A) or (B)(1) of section 4123.56 and sections 4123.58 and 4123.59 of the Revised Code. (5) As used in division (X) of this section, "hazardous duty" has the same meaning as in 5 C.F.R. 550.902, as amended. (Y) Silicosis: Silicosis means a disease of the lungs caused by breathing silica dust (silicon dioxide) producing fibrous nodules distributed through the lungs and demonstrated by x-ray examination, by biopsy or by autopsy. (Z) Coal miners' pneumoconiosis: Coal miners' pneumoconiosis, commonly referred to as "black lung disease," resulting from working in the coal mine industry and due to exposure to the breathing of coal dust, and demonstrated by x-ray examination, biopsy, autopsy or other medical or clinical tests. This chapter does not entitle an employee or the employee's dependents to compensation, medical treatment, or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death from silicosis, asbestosis, or coal miners' pneumoconiosis unless the employee has been subject to injurious exposure to silica dust (silicon dioxide), asbestos, or coal dust in the employee's employment in this state preceding the employee's disablement, some portion of which has been after October 12, 1945, except as provided in division (E) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code. Compensation on account of silicosis, asbestosis, or coal miners' pneumoconiosis are payable only in the event of temporary total disability, permanent total disability, or death, in accordance with sections 4123.56 , 4123.58 , and 4123.59 of the Revised Code. Medical, hospital, and nursing expenses are payable in accordance with this chapter. Compensation, medical, hospital, and nursing expenses are payable only in the event of such disability or death resulting within eight years after the last injurious exposure; provided that such eight-year limitation does not apply to disability or death occurring after January 1, 1976, and further provided that such eight-year limitation does not apply to any asbestosis cases. In the event of death following continuous total disability commencing within eight years after the last injurious exposure, the requirement of death within eight years after the last injurious exposure does not apply. This chapter does not entitle an employee or the employee's dependents to compensation, medical, hospital and nursing expenses, or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death due to silicosis, asbestosis, or coal miners' pneumoconiosis in the event of the failure or omission on the part of the employee truthfully to state, when seeking employment, the place, duration, and nature of previous employment in answer to an inquiry made by the employer. Before awarding compensation for disability or death due to silicosis, asbestosis, or coal miners' pneumoconiosis, the administrator shall refer the claim to a qualified medical specialist for examination and recommendation with regard to the diagnosis, the extent of disability, the cause of death, and other medical questions connected with the claim. An employee shall submit to such examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, as the administrator requires. In the event that an employee refuses to submit to examinations, including clinical and x-ray examinations, after notice from the administrator, or in the event that a claimant for compensation for death due to silicosis, asbestosis, or coal miners' pneumoconiosis fails to produce necessary consents and permits, after notice from the commission, so that such autopsy examination and tests may be performed, then all rights for compensation are forfeited. The reasonable compensation of such specialist and the expenses of examinations and tests shall be paid, if the claim is allowed, as a part of the expenses of the claim, otherwise they shall be paid from the surplus fund. (AA) Radiation illness: Any industrial process involving the use of radioactive materials. Claims for compensation and benefits due to radiation illness are payable only in the event death or disability occurred within eight years after the last injurious exposure provided that such eight-year limitation does not apply to disability or death from exposure occurring after January 1, 1976. In the event of death following continuous disability which commenced within eight years of the last injurious exposure the requirement of death within eight years after the last injurious exposure does not apply. (BB) Asbestosis: Asbestosis means a disease caused by inhalation or ingestion of asbestos, demonstrated by x-ray examination, biopsy, autopsy, or other objective medical or clinical tests. All conditions, restrictions, limitations, and other provisions of this section, with reference to the payment of compensation or benefits on account of silicosis or coal miners' pneumoconiosis apply to the payment of compensation or benefits on account of any other occupational disease of the respiratory tract resulting from injurious exposures to dust. The refusal to produce the necessary consents and permits for autopsy examination and testing shall not result in forfeiture of compensation provided the administrator finds that such refusal was the result of bona fide religious convictions or teachings to which the claimant for compensation adhered prior to the death of the decedent. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.99
§ 4109.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4109.04 , division (C) of section 4109.07 , division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.08 , section 4109.11 , or division (B) of section 4109.12 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 4109.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4109.03 , division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.07 , or section 4109.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense and a misdemeanor of the third degree on each subsequent offense. (D) Whoever violates division (A) of section 4109.12 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for each day the violation continues. (E) Whoever violates division (A) of section 4109.21 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on a first offense and a first degree misdemeanor on each subsequent offense. If, however, the violation on a first offense contains aggravating circumstances, including, but not limited to, threats to a minor, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, or abandonment of or endangerment to a minor but not including circumstances that are the basis of a felony violation of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code, then the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted under this section and if the subsequent offense contains aggravating circumstances other than circumstances that are the basis of a felony violation of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code, then the person is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (F) Whoever violates division (F) of section 4109.22 of the Revised Code shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to one thousand seven hundred thirty dollars for each violation. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.11
§ 4141.11. Unemployment compensation special administrative fund
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the unemployment compensation special administrative fund. The fund shall consist of all interest collected on delinquent contributions pursuant to this chapter, all fines and forfeitures collected under this chapter, all money received from the sale of real property under section 4141.131 of the Revised Code, the amount required under division (A)(4) of section 4141.35 of the Revised Code, and all court costs and interest paid or collected in connection with the repayment of fraudulently obtained benefits pursuant to section 4141.35 of the Revised Code. All interest earned on the money in the fund shall be retained in the fund and shall not be credited or transferred to any other fund or account, except as provided in division (B) of this section. All moneys which are deposited or paid into this fund may be used by: (A) The director of job and family services whenever it appears that such use is necessary for: (1) The proper administration of this chapter and no federal funds are available for the specific purpose for which the expenditure is to be made, provided the moneys are not substituted for appropriations from federal funds, which in the absence of such moneys would be available; (2) The proper administration of this chapter for which purpose appropriations from federal funds have been requested and approved but not received, provided the fund would be reimbursed upon receipt of the federal appropriation; (3) To the extent possible, the repayment to the unemployment compensation administration fund of moneys found by the proper agency of the United States to have been lost or expended for purposes other than, or an amount in excess of, those found necessary by the proper agency of the United States for the administration of this chapter. (B) The director or the director's deputy whenever it appears that such use is necessary for the payment of refunds or adjustments of interest, fines, forfeitures, or court costs erroneously collected and paid into this fund pursuant to this chapter. (C) The director, to pay state disaster unemployment benefits pursuant to section 4141.292 of the Revised Code. (D) The director, to pay any costs attributable to the director that are associated with the sale of real property under section 4141.131 of the Revised Code. Whenever the balance in the unemployment compensation special administrative fund is considered to be excessive by the director, the director shall request the director of budget and management to transfer to the unemployment compensation fund the amount considered to be excessive. Any balance in the unemployment compensation special administrative fund shall not lapse at any time, but shall be continuously available to the director of job and family services for expenditures consistent with this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.01
§ 4104.01. Boiler definitions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly As used in sections 4104.01 to 4104.20 and section 4104.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Board of building standards" or "board" means the board established by section 3781.07 of the Revised Code. (B) "Superintendent" means the superintendent of industrial compliance created by section 121.04 of the Revised Code. (C) "Boiler" means a closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated, steam is superheated, or any combination thereof, under pressure or vacuum for use externally to itself by the direct application of heat from the combustion of fuels, or from electricity or nuclear energy. "Boiler" includes fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other than water where these units are separate from processing systems and are complete within themselves. (D) "Power boiler" means a boiler in which steam or other vapor (to be used externally to itself) is generated at a pressure of more than fifteen psig. (E) "High pressure, high temperature water boiler" means a water heating boiler operating at pressures exceeding one hundred sixty psig or temperatures exceeding two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit. (F) "Low pressure boiler" means a steam boiler operating at pressures not exceeding fifteen psig, or a hot water heating boiler operating at pressures not exceeding one hundred sixty psig or temperatures not exceeding two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit. (G) "Pressure vessel" means a container for the containment of pressure, either internal or external. This pressure may be obtained from an external source or by the application of heat from a direct or indirect source or any combination thereof. (H) "Process boiler" means a boiler to which all of the following apply: (1) The steam in the boiler is either generated or superheated, or both, under pressure or vacuum for use external to itself. (2) The source of heat for the boiler is in part or in whole from a process other than the boiler itself. (3) The boiler is part of a continuous processing unit, such as used in chemical manufacture or petroleum refining, other than a steam-generated process unit. (I) "Stationary steam engine" means an engine or turbine in which the mechanical force arising from the elasticity and expansion action of steam or from its property of rapid condensation or from a combination of the two is made available as a motive power.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.56
§ 4141.56. Report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The director of job and family services annually shall prepare a report and submit it by the first day of August to the governor, the president and minority leader of the senate, and the speaker and the minority leader of the house of representatives. The report shall discuss the utilization of the SharedWork Ohio program created under section 4141.50 of the Revised Code. The director shall include in that report the number of employers and employees participating in the program, the amount of shared work compensation paid under the program during the immediately preceding year, and any other information the director considers to be relevant. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.41
§ 4141.41. Secretary of state is agent of employer for service of process - comity between states
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly Any nonresident employer who exercises the privilege of having one or more individuals perform personal services for the nonresident employer within this state and any resident employer who exercises that privilege and thereafter removes from this state shall be deemed thereby to appoint the secretary of state as the employer's agent and attorney for the acceptance of process in any civil action under this section. The director of job and family services in instituting an action against any such employer shall cause such process or notice to be filed with the secretary of state and such service shall be sufficient service upon such employer, and shall be of the same force and validity as if served upon the employer personally within this state; provided the director shall forthwith send notice of the service of such process or notice, together with a copy thereof, by registered mail, return receipt requested, to such employer at the employer's last known address, and such return receipt, the director's affidavit of compliance with this section, and the copy of the notice of service shall be appended to the original of the process filed in the court in which such civil action is pending. The court in which such action is pending may grant continuances to afford such employer a reasonable opportunity to defend the employer's interests. The courts of this state shall recognize and enforce liabilities for unemployment contributions imposed by other states which extend a like comity to this state. The attorney general may commence action in any other jurisdiction by and in the name of the director to collect unemployment contributions, forfeitures, and interest legally due this state. The officials of other states which extend a like comity to this state may sue for the collection of such contributions in the courts of this state. A certificate by the secretary of state under the great seal of the state that such officers of the department as designated by the director have authority to collect the unemployment contributions shall be conclusive evidence of such authority. No person residing in this state shall willfully make a false statement or representation or knowingly fail to disclose a material fact to obtain or increase benefits or payments under the unemployment insurance law of any other state. The attorney general may commence action in this state as agent for or on behalf of any other state to enforce judgments and liabilities for unemployment insurance taxes or contributions due such other state if such other state extends a like comity to this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.083 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.083
§ 4101.083. Duties of board of building standards
Status: in_force

December 22, 1992 Senate Bill 359 - 119th General Assembly (A) The board of building standards, established by section 3781.07 of the Revised Code, shall: (1) Formulate rules governing the design, construction, and installation of power, refrigerating, hydraulic, heating, and liquefied petroleum gas, oxygen, and other gaseous piping systems. Such rules shall prescribe uniform minimum standards necessary for the protection of the public health and safety and shall include rules establishing the safe working pressure to be carried by any such systems; a program for the certification of the welding and brazing procedures proposed to be used on any such system by the owner or operator of any welding or brazing business and for quinquennial performance testing of welders and brazers who work on any such system; and measures for the conservation of energy. Such rules shall be based upon and follow generally accepted engineering standards, formulas, and practices established and pertaining to such piping construction, installation, and testing. The board may, for this purpose, adopt existing published standards, as well as amendments thereto subsequently published by the same authority. (2) Prescribe the tests, to ascertain the qualities of materials and welding and brazing materials used in the construction of power, refrigerating, hydraulic, heating, and liquefied petroleum gas, oxygen, and other gaseous piping systems; (3) Make a standard form of certificate of inspection; (4) Prescribe the examinations for applicants for certificates of competency provided for in section 4101.081 of the Revised Code and performance tests to determine the proficiency of welders and brazers; (5) Certify municipal and county building departments to inspect power, refrigerating, hydraulic, heating, and liquefied petroleum gas, oxygen, and other gaseous piping systems and adopt rules governing such certification; (6) Establish the fee to be charged for an inspection made by a general inspector and for the filing and auditing of special inspector reports, and collect all fees established in this section. The fee for the quinquennial performance tests shall be fifteen dollars and the fee for certification of welding and brazing procedures mentioned in division (A) of this section shall be sixty dollars, except that the board of building standards, with the approval of the controlling board, may establish fees in excess of these fees, provided that the fees do not exceed the amounts of these fees by more than fifty per cent. The fee for each welding and brazing instruction sheet and procedure qualification record shall be fifteen dollars. Any moneys collected under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial relations operating fund created in section 4101.021 of the Revised Code. (B) Piping is exempt from the requirements for submission of applications and inspections and the necessity to obtain permits, as required under this section and section 4101.084 of the Revised Code, or under rules adopted pursuant to those sections, for power, refrigerating, hydraulic, heating, and liquefied petroleum gas, oxygen, and gaseous piping systems if the piping is used: (1) In air cooling systems in residential or commercial buildings and if such systems do not exceed five tons (sixty thousand British thermal units per hour) per system; or (2) In air heating systems in residential or commercial buildings and if such systems do not exceed one hundred fifty thousand British thermal units per hour per system. (C) The board of building standards may, by rule, exempt from the rules adopted pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section any pressure piping systems which pose no appreciable danger to the public health and safety.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.522 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.522
§ 4123.522. Right to receive written notice of action
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly The employee, employer, and their respective representatives are entitled to written notice of any hearing, determination, order, award, or decision under this chapter and the administrator of workers' compensation and his representative are entitled to like notice for orders issued under divisions (C) and (D) of section 4123.511 and section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. An employee, employer, or the administrator is deemed not to have received notice until the notice is received from the industrial commission or its district or staff hearing officers, the administrator, or the bureau of workers' compensation by both the employee and his representative of record, both the employer and his representative of record, and by both the administrator and his representative. If any person to whom a notice is mailed fails to receive the notice and the commission, upon hearing, determines that the failure was due to cause beyond the control and without the fault or neglect of such person or his representative and that such person or his representative did not have actual knowledge of the import of the information contained in the notice, such person may take the action afforded to such person within twenty-one days after the receipt of the notice of such determination of the commission. Delivery of the notice to the address of the person or his representative is prima-facie evidence of receipt of the notice by the person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.45
§ 4141.45. Right to amend or repeal
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by sections 4141.01 to 4141.46 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or by acts done pursuant thereto, shall exist subject to the power of the general assembly to amend or repeal such sections at any time.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.09
§ 4115.09. Awarding of contract without ascertaining prevailing rates of wages
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly No member of a public board, commission, or other public authority authorized to contract for or construct with its own forces a public improvement, shall vote for the award of any contract for the construction of such improvement, or vote for the disbursement of any funds on account of the construction of such public improvement, unless such public authority has first had the director of commerce determine the prevailing rates of wages of mechanics and laborers for the class of work called for by such public improvement in the locality where the work is to be performed, as provided in section 4115.04 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.77 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.77
§ 4123.77. Common law defenses denied to noncomplying employers
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 494 - 132nd General Assembly Private employers who fail to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code are not entitled to the benefits of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, during the period of such noncompliance, but are liable to their employees for damages suffered by reason of personal injuries sustained in the course of employment caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of the employer, or any of the employer's officers, agents, or employees, and also to the personal representatives of such employees where death results from such injuries, and in such action the defendant shall not avail self of the following common law defenses: (A) The defense of the fellow servant rule; (B) The defense of the assumption of risk; (C) The defense of contributory negligence. Such employers are subject to sections 4123.37 and 4123.75 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.022 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.022
§ 4112.022. Unlawful discriminatory practice of educational institution
Status: in_force

March 17, 2000 House Bill 264 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, "educational institution" means a state university or college, state-assisted institution of higher education, nonprofit educational institution described in Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code, or institution registered under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate against any individual on account of any disability: (A) In admission or assignment to any academic program, course of study, internship, or class offered by the institution; (B) In permitting participation in any activity that is sponsored by the institution or that takes place on property owned, operated, or controlled by the institution; (C) In the awarding of any form of financial aid or other benefits available to students; (D) In admission or assignment to housing or other facilities owned, operated, or controlled by the institution; (E) In awarding of grades or granting of certificates, diplomas, or degrees offered by the institution. Nothing in this section prohibits any educational institution from establishing bona fide requirements or standards for admission or assignment to academic programs, courses, internships, or classes; for permitting participation in activities; for awarding of financial aid or other benefits; or for the granting of grades, certificates, diplomas, or degrees, which requirements or standards may include reasonable qualifications for demonstrating necessary skill, aptitude, physical capability, intelligence, and previous education. Nothing in this section requires any educational institution to construct, reconstruct, improve, enlarge, or alter any building, facility, or property owned, operated, or controlled by the institution, in any manner, for the purpose of making the building, facility, or property accessible to persons with a disability, provided that this section does not exempt an educational institution from compliance with standards adopted under section 3781.111 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.21
§ 4105.21. Enforcement of chapter - sealing and posting of notice prohibiting use of elevator
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly The superintendent of industrial compliance shall enforce this chapter. If the superintendent or a general inspector of elevators finds that an elevator or a part thereof does not afford reasonable safety as required by section 4105.13 of the Revised Code, the superintendent or the general inspector may seal such elevator and post a notice thereon prohibiting further use of the elevator until the changes or alterations set forth in the notice have been made to the satisfaction of the superintendent or the inspector. The notice shall contain a statement that operators or passengers are subject to injury by its continued use, a description of the alteration or other change necessary to be made in order to secure safety of operation, date of such notice, name and signature of the superintendent or inspector issuing the notice.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.01
§ 4105.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 House Bill 107 - 134th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Elevator" means a hoisting and lowering apparatus equipped with a car, cage, or platform which moves on or between permanent rails or guides and serves two or more fixed landings in a building or structure to which section 3781.06 of the Revised Code applies or in a private residence. "Elevator" includes dumb-waiters other than hand-powered dumb-waiters, escalators, manlifts, moving walks, of the endless belt type, other lifting or lowering apparatus permanently installed on or between rails or guides, and all equipment, machinery, and construction related to any elevator; but does not include construction hoists and other similar temporary lifting or lowering apparatuses, ski lifts, chairlifts installed in a private residence, a lifting device installed in a showroom for demonstration purposes only, traveling, portable amusement rides or devices that are not affixed to a permanent foundation, or nonportable amusement rides or devices that are affixed to a permanent foundation. (B) "Passenger elevator" means an elevator that is designed to carry persons to its contract capacity. (C) "Freight elevator" means an elevator normally used for carrying freight and on which only the operator and employees in the pursuit of their duties, by the permission of the employer, are allowed to ride. (D) "Gravity elevator" means an elevator utilizing gravity to move. (E) "General inspector" means a state inspector examined and hired to inspect elevators and lifting apparatus for that state. (F) "Special inspector" means an inspector examined and commissioned by the superintendent of industrial compliance to inspect elevators and lifting apparatus in the state. (G) "Inspector" means either a general or special inspector. (H) "Private residence" means a distinct building or a unit in a multiple dwelling building that is occupied by members of a single-family unit. Last updated March 21, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.032
§ 4123.032. Benefits for emergency management workers
Status: in_force

September 29, 1994 Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly Every emergency management worker shall, with respect to the performance of his duties as such emergency management worker, be in the employment of the state or political subdivision for purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, and every emergency management worker or, in case of death, his dependents shall be entitled to the benefits payable on account of total disability, loss of member, or death as accorded by such sections to employees covered by its provisions. No payment for such disability, loss of member, or death shall be made unless a claim is filed within one year of the date of the accidental injury causing the total disability, loss of member, or death. If an injury claim is filed within the said one year period and the claimant subsequently dies, his dependents shall file any death claim based on such injury within six months after the death or be forever barred.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4131.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4131 / § 4131.02
§ 4131.02. Administrator of workers' compensation - powers and duties regarding fund
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall have the same powers and duties of administration, collection, maintenance, investment, and disbursement of the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund as are delegated and imposed upon him pursuant to Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, except that the powers and duties of the administrator are limited to, and exercised pursuant to those specifically authorized in sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator shall employ the employees necessary to the discharge of its duties and responsibilities under sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall pay the salaries and expenses of those employees from the fund created by section 4131.03 of the Revised Code upon warrants authorized and signed pursuant to section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.02
§ 4115.02. Maximum consecutive hours for firemen on duty
Status: in_force

November 19, 1969 Senate Bill 69 - 108th General Assembly The chief of the fire department of each municipal corporation, township, or fire district employing three or more full-time paid firemen, unless exempt under this section, shall divide the uniform force into not less than two platoons, and where the uniform force is so divided into two platoons the said chief shall keep a platoon of the uniform force on duty twenty-four consecutive hours, after which the platoon serving twenty-four hours shall be allowed to remain off duty for at least twenty-four consecutive hours, except in cases of extraordinary emergency. Each individual member of the platoons in addition to receiving a minimum of twenty-four hours off duty in each period of forty-eight hours shall receive an additional period of twenty-four consecutive hours off duty in each period of eight days so that no individual member shall be on duty more than a total of seventy-two hours in any period of eight days. The chief shall arrange the schedule of working hours to comply with this section. The chief may, however, in cases of sickness, death, or on other necessary occasions, permit the exchange of working hours between members of the department. In each municipal corporation, township, and fire district all employees of the fire department shall be given not less than two weeks' leave of absence annually, with full pay. This section insofar as it relates to off duty periods does not apply to any municipal corporation, township, or fire district that adopts a forty-hour week or to any municipal corporation, township, or fire district which has a three platoon system the members of which work twenty-four consecutive hours immediately followed by forty-eight consecutive hours off duty, but the provisions relating to the two weeks' leave of absence do apply. "Full-time paid firemen" as used in this section does not include volunteer firemen, or firemen who work part-time.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.20
§ 4141.20. Employers to furnish information to director - quarterly reports - forfeiture
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) Every employer, including those not otherwise subject to this chapter, shall furnish the director of job and family services upon request all information required by the director to carry out the requirements of this chapter. Every employer receiving from the director any blank with direction to fill it out shall cause it to be properly filled out, in the manner prescribed by the director, so as to answer fully and correctly all questions therein propounded, and shall furnish all the information therein sought, or, if unable to do so, that employer shall give the director in writing good and sufficient reason for such failure. The director may require that such information be verified under oath and returned to the director within the period fixed by the director or by law. The director or any person employed by the director for that purpose may examine under oath any such employer, or the officer, agent, or employee of that employer, for the purpose of ascertaining any information that the employer is required by this chapter to furnish to the director. (B) Every contributory employer shall file a quarterly contribution and wage report. The quarterly report shall be filed not later than the last day of the first month following the close of the calendar quarter for which the quarterly report is being filed. The employer shall enter on the quarterly report the total and taxable remuneration paid to all employees during the quarter, the name and social security number of each individual employed during the calendar quarter, the total remuneration paid the individual, the number of weeks during the quarter for which the individual was paid remuneration, and any other information as required by section 1137 of the "Social Security Act." In case of failure to properly file the quarterly contribution and wage report containing all the required contribution and wage information within the time prescribed by this section, the director shall assess a forfeiture amounting to twenty-five one-hundredths of one per cent of the total remuneration reported by the employer, provided such forfeiture shall not be less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars. (C) Every employer liable for payments in lieu of contributions shall file a quarterly payroll and wage report. The quarterly report shall be filed not later than the last day of the first month following the close of the calendar quarter for which the quarterly report is being filed. The employer shall enter on the quarterly report the total remuneration paid to all employees during the quarter, the total wages that would have been taxable had the employer been subject to contributions, the name and social security number of each individual employed during the calendar quarter, the total remuneration paid the individual, the number of weeks during the quarter for which the individual was paid remuneration, and any other information as required by section 1137 of the "Social Security Act." In case of failure to properly file the quarterly payroll and wage report containing all the required payroll and wage information within the time prescribed by this section, the director shall assess a forfeiture amounting to twenty-five one-hundredths of one per cent of the total remuneration reported by the employer, provided such forfeiture shall not be less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars. (D) The director may waive a forfeiture assessed under division (B) or (C) of this section if the employer provides to the director, within four years after the date the forfeiture was assessed, a written statement showing good cause for failure to properly file the required information. (E) The director shall furnish the form or forms on which quarterly reports required under this section are to be submitted, or the employer may use other methods of reporting, including electronic information transmission methods, as approved by the director. (F) All forfeitures required by this section shall be paid into the unemployment compensation special administrative fund as provided in section 4141.11 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4169.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4169 / § 4169.02
§ 4169.02. Duties of division of industrial compliance
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 House Bill 442 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce shall be responsible for regulating the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways that are associated with ski areas and for registering operators of passenger tramways in this state. (B) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the division shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules relating to public safety in the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways. The rules shall be in accordance with established standards in the business of ski area operation, if any, and shall not discriminate in their application to ski area operators. No person shall violate the rules of the division. (C) The authority of the division shall not extend to any matter relative to the operation of a ski area other than the construction, maintenance, mechanical operation, and inspection of passenger tramways. Last updated April 9, 2021 at 4:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.52
§ 4123.52. Continuing jurisdiction of commission
Status: in_force

September 26, 2025 House Bill 81 - 136th General Assembly (A) The jurisdiction of the industrial commission and the authority of the administrator of workers' compensation over each case is continuing, and the commission may make such modification or change with respect to former findings or orders with respect thereto, as, in its opinion is justified. No modification or change nor any finding or award in respect of any claim shall be made with respect to disability, compensation, dependency, or benefits, after five years from the date of injury in the absence of medical benefits being provided under this chapter or in the absence of payment of compensation under section 4123.57 , 4123.58 , or division (A) or (B) of section 4123.56 of the Revised Code or wages in lieu of compensation in a manner so as to satisfy the requirements of section 4123.84 of the Revised Code, in which event the modification, change, finding, or award shall be made within five years from the date of the last medical services being rendered or the date of the last payment of compensation or from the date of death, nor unless written notice of claim for the specific part or parts of the body injured or disabled has been given as provided in section 4123.84 or 4123.85 of the Revised Code. The commission shall not make any modification, change, finding, or award which shall award compensation for a back period in excess of two years prior to the date of filing application therefor. (B)(1) As used in this division, "prosthetic device" means a custom fabricated or fitted device used to replace a missing appendage or other external body part. "Prosthetic device" includes an artificial limb, hand, foot, or eye or an intraocular lens. "Prosthetic device" does not include a dental appliance, eyeglasses, hearing aid, ostomy product, or any other item that does not have a significant impact on the musculoskeletal functions of the body such as breast prostheses, eyelashes, wigs, and other cosmetic devices. (2) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in division (A) of this section, the commission or administrator may, regardless of the date of injury or the last payment of compensation or benefits, order payment to purchase, repair, or replace a prosthetic device if the purchase, repair, or replacement is necessary due to an amputation or loss that resulted from an allowed injury or occupational disease. (3) Ordering a payment under division (B)(2) of this section does not extend the time period during which the commission or administrator may modify or change a former finding or order in a claim as provided under division (A) of this section. (C) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, and except as otherwise provided in a rule that shall be adopted by the administrator, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, neither the administrator nor the commission shall make any finding or award for payment of medical or vocational rehabilitation services submitted for payment more than one year after the date the services were rendered or more than one year after the date the services became payable under division (I) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code, whichever is later. No medical or vocational rehabilitation provider shall bill a claimant for services rendered if the administrator or commission is prohibited from making that payment under this division. (D) Division (C) of this section does not apply to requests made by the centers for medicare and medicaid services in the United States department of health and human services for reimbursement of conditional payments made pursuant to section 1395y(b)(2) of title 42, United States Code (commonly known as the "Medicare Secondary Payer Act"). (E) This section does not affect the right of a claimant to compensation accruing subsequent to the filing of any such application, provided the application is filed within the time limit provided in this section. (F) This section does not deprive the commission of its continuing jurisdiction to determine the questions raised by any application for modification of award which has been filed with the commission after June 1, 1932, and prior to the expiration of the applicable period but in respect to which no award has been granted or denied during the applicable period. (G) The commission may, by general rules, provide for the destruction of files of cases in which no further action may be taken. (H) The commission and administrator of workers' compensation each may, by general rules, provide for the retention and destruction of all other records in their possession or under their control pursuant to section 121.211 and sections 149.34 to 149.36 of the Revised Code. The bureau of workers' compensation may purchase or rent required equipment for the document retention media, as determined necessary to preserve the records. Photographs, microphotographs, microfilm, films, or other direct or electronic document retention media, when properly identified, have the same effect as the original record and may be offered in like manner and may be received as evidence in proceedings before the industrial commission, staff hearing officers, and district hearing officers, and in any court where the original record could have been introduced. Last updated August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.12
§ 4167.12. Confidential trade secrets
Status: in_force

June 21, 2005 House Bill 67 - 126th General Assembly All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the administrator of workers' compensation or the administrator's designee in connection with any investigation, inspection, or proceeding under this chapter that reveals a trade secret of any person is confidential, except that the information may be disclosed to other agents or authorized representatives of the administrator concerned with fulfilling the requirements of this chapter, or when relevant, to any proceeding under this chapter. In any proceeding, the administrator or the court shall issue orders as appropriate to protect the confidentiality of trade secrets.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.12
§ 4111.12. Right of employees to collective bargaining
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 201 - 110th General Assembly Nothing in sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code interferes with, impedes, or in any way diminishes the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4131.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4131 / § 4131.04
§ 4131.04. Subscriber to pay premiums
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) For the purpose of sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code, each subscriber shall pay premiums upon the basis and at the intervals determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) The administrator shall fix and maintain for each class of occupation and type of mining the lowest possible rates of premiums consistent with the maintenance of a solvent fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus after providing for payment to maturity of all liabilities insured pursuant to the federal act. (C) The administrator may adjust the rates of premium at any time. Each adjustment order shall become effective on the date prescribed by the administrator. (D) The administrator, by rule, may prescribe procedures for subscription, payroll reporting, premium payment, termination of subscription, reinstatement, and all other matters pertinent to subscriber participation in the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund. (E) In addition to premiums required to be paid into the fund, the administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall fix and may adjust at any time an additional premium for the cost of administering the fund. The additional premium shall be paid by each subscriber as a part of the subscriber's total premium payment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4127.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4127 / § 4127.06
§ 4127.06. Funds from which compensation shall be paid
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly During periods of temporary disability and partial disability other than that resulting from loss of a member or sight or total or partial loss of use of a member, an injured work-relief employee shall be paid directly out of the fund from which the employee was receiving relief, the amounts required to meet the budgetary needs of the employee and his dependents, and in the manner determined by the person or agency having control over or supervision of the fund. When all of the funds for relief purposes which are available to any employer are exhausted, or when, disability as a result of the injury is continuous beyond a period of six months, the injured work-relief employee shall be compensated for temporary and partial disability out of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund by the bureau of workers' compensation in the same manner and amount as is provided in sections 4127.01 to 4127.14 of the Revised Code for other disabilities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4151.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4151 / § 4151.06
§ 4151.06. License revocation
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 246 - 136th General Assembly (A) If a court, pursuant to an action brought under section 4151.05 of the Revised Code, determines that a nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien, the court shall order each appropriate agency to permanently revoke any license issued by the agency and held by the nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker specific to the business location where the unauthorized alien performed work. If the nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker does not hold a license specific to the business location where the unauthorized alien performed work, but a license is necessary to operate the nonresidential construction contractor's, subcontractor's, or labor broker's business in general, the court shall order the appropriate agency to permanently revoke all licenses issued by that agency that are held by the nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker at the nonresidential construction contractor's, subcontractor's, or labor broker's primary place of business. On receipt of the order and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the appropriate agency immediately shall revoke the licenses. (B) For purposes of determining whether an employee is an unauthorized alien, a court shall consider only a determination with respect to that alien's immigration status made by the federal government pursuant to the federal "Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997," 8 U.S.C. 1373(c). The federal government's determination creates a rebuttable presumption of the alien's lawful status. The court may take judicial notice of the federal government's determination and may request the federal government to provide automated or testimonial verification pursuant to the federal "Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997," 8 U.S.C. 1373(c). Last updated January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.79
§ 4123.79. Party may enjoin operation of noncomplying employer - construction contractor or subcontractor
Status: in_force

September 17, 1996 House Bill 245 - 121st General Assembly (A) Any interested party may enjoin the further operation of an employer subject to this chapter who has failed to pay the employer's premium to the workers' compensation fund as prescribed in this chapter. The procedure to obtain an injunction is governed by Chapter 2727. of the Revised Code and the right to such relief is in addition to the rights described in section 2727.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No construction contractor or subcontractor who, on the date of entering into a construction contract has not been in compliance with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code for a minimum of nine consecutive months, may bring an action to enforce rights arising from that construction contract. (2) Nothing in this section shall require the surety of a contractor or subcontractor described in division (B)(1) of this section to make payment of any workers' compensation obligation of that contractor or subcontractor or affect the surety's rights in the event that the contractor or subcontractor is in default or is declared by an obligee to be in default of its contractual obligations. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Interested party" means any of the following: (a) An employer who is in compliance with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and who is not a self-insuring employer; (b) The attorney general; (c) The administrator of workers' compensation. (2) "Construction contract" means any oral or written agreement involving any activity in connection with the erection, alteration, repair, replacement, renovation, installation, or demolition of any building, structure, highway, or bridge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.62
§ 4123.62. Consideration of expected wage increases
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) If it is established that an injured or disabled employee was of such age and experience when injured or disabled as that under natural conditions an injured or disabled employee's wages would be expected to increase, the administrator of workers' compensation may consider that fact in arriving at an injured or disabled employee's average weekly wage. (B) On each first day of January, the current maximum monthly benefit amounts provided in sections 4123.412 , 4123.413 , and 4123.414 of the Revised Code in injury cases shall be adjusted based on the United States department of labor's national consumer price index. The percentage increase in the cost of living using the index figure for the first day of September of the preceding year and the first day of September of the year preceding that year shall be applied to the maximums in effect on the preceding thirty-first day of December to obtain the increase in the cost of living during that year. In determining the increase in the maximum benefits for any year after 1972, the base shall be the national consumer price index on the first day of September of the preceding year. The increase in the index for the applicable twelve-month period shall be determined and shall be divided by the base used. The resulting percentage shall be applied to the existing maximums to arrive at the new maximums. (C) Effective January 1, 1974, and each first day of January thereafter, the current maximum weekly benefit amounts provided in sections 4123.56 , 4123.58 , and 4123.59 , and division (B) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code shall be adjusted based on the increase or decrease in the statewide average weekly wage. "Statewide average weekly wage" means the average weekly earnings of all workers in Ohio employment subject to Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code as determined as of the first day of September for the four full calendar quarters preceding the first day of July of each year, by the director of job and family services. The statewide average weekly wage to be used for the determination of compensation for any employee who sustains an injury, or death, or who contracts an occupational disease during the subsequent calendar year beginning with the first day of January, shall be the statewide average weekly wage so determined as of the prior first day of September adjusted to the next higher even multiple of one dollar. Any change in benefit amounts is effective with respect to injuries sustained, occupational diseases contracted, and deaths occurring during the calendar year for which adjustment is made. In determining the change in the maximum benefits for any year after 1978, the base shall be the statewide average weekly wage on the first day of September of the preceding year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.08
§ 4141.08. Unemployment compensation integrity board
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The unemployment compensation integrity board is created. The board may advise and consult the director of job and family services in the administration and enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under it, including making recommendations to the director regarding proposed rules or public private partnerships. The board consists of the following members: (1) The director of job and family services, or the director's authorized representative; (2) One member of the house of representative appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (3) One member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate; (4) The following members to be appointed by the director: (a) A representative from the Ohio chamber of commerce or its successor organization; (b) A representative from the national federation of independent business or its successor organization; (c) A third-party administrator that is a third-party commercial consumer reporting agency, in accordance with the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.; (d) A representative from the Ohio federation of labor or its successor organization; (e) A representative from the affiliated construction trades of Ohio or its successor organization; (f) A representative from the Ohio conference of teamsters or its successor organization. (B) The director of job and family services, or the director's authorized representative, shall serve as chairperson of the board. (C) The board shall meet at least two times each calendar year. (D) Each member appointed by the director shall serve three year terms that expire on the thirty-first day of December. (E) Each member appointed by the director shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. A member appointed by the director to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term. A member appointed by the director shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. A member appointed by the director shall continue in office for the entirety of the member's term unless removed for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance. (F) The members of the board who are appointed from the membership of the senate and the house of representatives shall serve during their terms as members of the general assembly and until their successors are appointed and qualified, notwithstanding the adjournment of the general assembly of which they are members or the expiration of their terms as members of such general assembly. (G) All meetings of the unemployment compensation integrity board shall comply with section 121.22 of the Revised Code. (H) All members of the unemployment compensation integrity board shall comply with Chapter 102. of the Revised Code, as applicable. Last updated August 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.33
§ 4123.33. Certificate of protection for period of less than one year
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly Where, in the judgment of the administrator of workers' compensation, the circumstances justify or require a certificate entitling an employer to protection under this chapter for a period of less than one year, the administrator may, upon such conditions as are just and for such premium as the facts require, grant to the employer a certificate for the length of time the administrator designates in the certificate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.13
§ 4115.13. Investigations - determinations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) Upon the director's own motion or within five days of the filing of a properly completed complaint under section 4115.10 or 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce, or a representative designated by the director, shall investigate any alleged violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (B) At the conclusion of the investigation, the director or a designated representative shall make a determination as to whether the alleged violation was committed. If the director or designated representative determines that the alleged violation was an intentional violation, the director or designated representative shall give written notice by certified mail of that determination to the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of the contractor or subcontractor which also shall state that the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of the contractor or subcontractor may file with the director an appeal of the determination within thirty days after the date the notice was received. If the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of the contractor or subcontractor timely appeals the determination, within sixty days of the filing of the appeal, the director or designated representative shall schedule the appeal for a hearing. If the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of the contractor or subcontractor fails to timely appeal the determination, the director or designated representative shall adopt the determination as a finding of fact for purposes of division (D) of this section. The director or designated representative, in the performance of any duty or execution of any power prescribed by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, may hold hearings, and such hearings shall be held within the county in which the violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code is alleged to have been committed, or in Franklin county, whichever county the person alleged to have committed the violation chooses. For the purpose of the hearing, the director may designate a hearing examiner who shall, after notice to all interested parties, conduct a hearing and make findings of fact and recommendations to the director. The director shall make a decision, which shall be sent to the affected parties. The director or designated representative may make decisions, based upon findings of fact, as are found necessary to enforce sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (C) If any underpayment by a contractor or subcontractor was the result of a misinterpretation of the statute, or an erroneous preparation of the payroll documents, the director or designated representative may make a decision ordering the employer to make restitution to the employees, or on their behalf, the plans, funds, or programs for any type of fringe benefits described in the applicable wage determination. In accordance with the finding of the director that any underpayment was the result of a misinterpretation of the statute, or an erroneous preparation of the payroll documents, employers who make restitution are not subject to any further proceedings pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. If a contractor's or subcontractor's underpayment to an employee is less than one thousand dollars, the contractor or subcontractor is not subject to any further proceedings under sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code for that underpayment if the contractor or subcontractor makes full restitution to the affected employee. (D) If the director or designated representative makes a decision, based upon findings of fact, that a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor has intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor is prohibited from contracting directly or indirectly with any public authority for the construction of a public improvement or from performing any work on the same as provided in section 4115.133 of the Revised Code. A contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor may appeal the decision, within sixty days after the decision, to the court of common pleas of the county in which the first hearing involving the violation was heard. If the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor does not timely appeal the determination of the director or designated representative under division (B) of this section, the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor may appeal the findings of fact, within sixty days after the determinations are adopted as findings of fact, to the court of common pleas within the county in which the violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code is alleged to have been committed or in Franklin county, whichever county the person alleged to have committed the violation chooses. (E) No appeal to the court from the decision of the director may be had by the contractor or subcontractor unless the contractor or subcontractor files a bond with the court in the amount of the restitution, conditioned upon payment should the decision of the director be upheld. (F) No statement of a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor and no determination, recommendation, or finding of fact issued under this section is admissible as evidence in a criminal action brought under this chapter against the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor. (G) In determining whether a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director may consider as evidence either of the following: (1) The fact that the director, prior to the commission of the violation under consideration, issued notification to the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor of the same or a similar violation, provided that the commission of the same or a similar violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code at a subsequent time does not create a presumption that the subsequent violation was intentional; (2) The fact that, prior to the commission of the violation, the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor used reasonable efforts to ascertain the correct interpretation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code from the director or 4115.04 or 4115.131 of the Revised Code, provided that a violation is presumed not to be intentional where a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor complies with a decision the director or designated representative issues pursuant to a request made under section 4115.131 of the Revised Code. (H) As used in this section, "intentional violation" means a willful, knowing, or deliberate failure to comply with any provision of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, and includes, but is not limited to, the following actions when conducted in the manner described in this division: (1) An intentional failure to submit reports as required under division (C) of section 4115.071 of the Revised Code or knowingly submitting false or erroneous reports; (2) An intentional misclassification of employees for the purpose of reducing wages; (3) An intentional misclassification of employees as independent contractors or as apprentices; (4) An intentional failure to pay the prevailing wage; (5) An intentional failure to comply with the allowable ratio of apprentices to skilled workers as required under section 4115.05 of the Revised Code and by rules adopted by the director pursuant to section 4115.12 of the Revised Code; (6) Intentionally allowing an officer of a contractor or subcontractor who is known to be prohibited from contracting directly or indirectly with a public authority for the construction of a public improvement or from performing any work on the same pursuant to section 4115.133 of the Revised Code to perform work on a public improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.06
§ 4117.06. State employment relations board to determine collective bargaining unit
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The state employment relations board shall decide in each case the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining. The determination is final and conclusive and not appealable to the court. (B) The board shall determine the appropriateness of each bargaining unit and shall consider among other relevant factors: the desires of the employees; the community of interest; wages, hours, and other working conditions of the public employees; the effect of over-fragmentation; the efficiency of operations of the public employer; the administrative structure of the public employer; and the history of collective bargaining. (C) The board may determine a unit to be the appropriate unit in a particular case, even though some other unit might also be appropriate. (D) In addition, in determining the appropriate unit, the board shall not: (1) Decide that any unit is appropriate if the unit includes both professional and nonprofessional employees, unless a majority of the professional employees and a majority of the nonprofessional employees first vote for inclusion in the unit; (2) Include guards or correction officers at correctional or mental institutions, special police officers appointed in accordance with sections 5119.08 and 5123.13 of the Revised Code, psychiatric attendants employed at mental health forensic facilities, youth leaders employed at juvenile correction facilities, or any public employee employed as a guard to enforce against other employees rules to protect property of the employer or to protect the safety of persons on the employer's premises in a unit with other employees; (3) Include members of a police or fire department or members of the state highway patrol in a unit with other classifications of public employees of the department; (4) Designate as appropriate a bargaining unit that contains more than one institution of higher education; nor shall it within any such institution of higher education designate as appropriate a unit where such designation would be inconsistent with the accreditation standards or interpretations of such standards, governing such institution of higher education or any department, school, or college thereof. For the purposes of this division, any branch or regional campus of a public institution of higher education is part of that institution of higher education. (5) Designate as appropriate a bargaining unit that contains employees within the jurisdiction of more than one elected county office holder, unless the county-elected office holder and the board of county commissioners agree to such other designation; (6) With respect to members of a police department, designate as appropriate a unit that includes rank and file members of the department with members who are of the rank of sergeant or above; (7) Except as otherwise provided by division (A)(3) of section 3314.10 or division (B) of section 3326.18 of the Revised Code, designate as appropriate a bargaining unit that contains employees from multiple community schools established under Chapter 3314. or multiple science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code. For purposes of this division, more than one unit may be designated within a single community school or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school. This section shall not be deemed to prohibit multiunit bargaining.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.09
§ 4167.09. Application for temporary variance or for variance from standard
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) Any public employer affected by a proposed rule or Ohio employment risk reduction standard or any provision of a standard proposed under section 4167.07 or 4167.08 of the Revised Code may apply to the administrator of workers' compensation for an order granting a temporary variance from the standard or provision. The application for the order and any extension of the order shall contain a reasonable application fee, as determined by the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and all of the following information: (1) A specification of the Ohio public employment risk reduction standard or provision of it from which the public employer seeks the temporary variance; (2) A representation by the public employer, supported by representations from qualified persons having firsthand knowledge of the facts represented, that the public employer is unable to comply with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or provision of it and a detailed statement of the reasons for the inability to comply; (3) A statement of the steps that the public employer has taken and will take, with dates specified, to protect employees against the hazard covered by the standard; (4) A statement of when the public employer expects to be able to comply fully with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard and what steps the public employer has taken and will take, with dates specified, to come into full compliance with the standard; (5) A certification that the public employer has informed the public employer's public employees of the application by giving a copy of the application to the public employee representative, if any, and by posting a statement giving a summary of the application and specifying where a copy of the application may be examined at the place or places where notices to public employees are normally posted, and by any other appropriate means of public employee notification. The public employer also shall inform the public employer's public employees of their rights to a hearing under section 4167.15 of the Revised Code. The certification also shall contain a description of how public employees have been informed of the application and of their rights to a hearing. (B) The administrator shall issue an order providing for a temporary variance if the public employer files an application that meets the requirements of division (A) of this section and establishes that all of the following pertaining to the public employer are true: (1) The public employer is unable to comply with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or a provision of it by its effective date because of the unavailability of professional or technical personnel or of materials and equipment needed to come into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or provision of it or because necessary construction or alteration of facilities cannot be completed by the effective date of the standard. (2) The public employer is taking all available steps to safeguard the public employer's public employees against the hazards covered by the Ohio employment risk reduction standard. (3) The public employer has an effective program for coming into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard as quickly as practicable. (4) The granting of the variance will not create an imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to public employees. (C)(1) If the administrator issues an order providing for a temporary variance under division (B) of this section, the administrator shall prescribe the practices, means, methods, operations, and processes that the public employer must adopt and use while the order is in effect and state in detail the public employer's program for coming into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard. The administrator may issue the order only after providing notice to affected public employees and their public employee representative, if any, and an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code, provided that the administrator may issue one interim order granting a temporary order to be effective until a decision on a hearing is made. Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, no temporary variance may be in effect for longer than the period needed by the public employer to achieve compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or one year, whichever is shorter. (2) The administrator may renew an order issued under division (C) of this section up to two times provided that the requirements of divisions (A), (B), and (C)(1) of this section and section 4167.15 of the Revised Code are met and the public employer files an application for renewal with the administrator at least ninety days prior to the expiration date of the order. (D) Any public employer affected by an Ohio employment risk reduction standard or any provision of it proposed, adopted, or otherwise issued under section 4167.07 or 4167.08 of the Revised Code may apply to the administrator for an order granting a variance from the standard or provision. The administrator shall provide affected public employees and their public employee representative, if any, notice of the application and shall provide an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall issue the order granting the variance if the public employer files an application that meets the requirements of division (B) of this section, and after an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code, and if the public employer establishes to the satisfaction of the administrator that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations, or processes used or proposed to be used by the public employer will provide employment and places of employment to the public employer's public employees that are as safe and healthful as those that would prevail if the public employer complied with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard. The administrator shall prescribe in the order granting the variance the conditions the public employer must maintain, and the practices, means, methods, operations, and processes the public employer must adopt and utilize in lieu of the Ohio employment risk reduction standard that would otherwise apply. The administrator may modify or revoke the order upon application of the public employer, public employee, or public employee representative, or upon the administrator's own motion in the manner prescribed for the issuance of an order under this division at any time during six months after the date of issuance of the order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.44
§ 4104.44. Welding and brazing to conform to industry standards
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly All welding and brazing of metallic piping systems shall be performed in accordance with section IX of the boiler and pressure vessel code, published by the American society of mechanical engineers. The owner shall maintain, at the job site, the certified performance qualification records of all welders and brazers employed at the facility. The owner shall submit copies of all certified welding and brazing procedure specifications, procedure qualification records, and performance qualification records for building services piping for review to the superintendent of industrial compliance in the department of commerce in accordance with rules the superintendent adopts. The submission shall be accompanied by the fee the superintendent establishes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.20
§ 4121.20. Depositions
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly The bureau of workers' compensation or any party may in any investigation cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.14
§ 4113.14. Pay stubs
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 106 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" and "employer" have the same meanings as in section 4113.51 of the Revised Code. (2) "Workweek" means a fixed, regularly recurring period of one hundred sixty-eight hours that an employer expressly adopts for purposes of complying with section 7 of the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," 29 U.S.C. 207. (B) Every employer shall provide each of the employer's employees with a written or electronic statement or access to a statement of the employee's earnings and deductions for each pay period on the employer's regular paydays. An employer shall include all of the following information in the statement: (1) The employee's name; (2) The employee's address; (3) The employer's name; (4) The total gross wages earned by the employee during the pay period; (5) The total net wages paid to the employee for the pay period; (6) A listing of the amount and purpose of each addition to or deduction from the wages paid to the employee during the pay period; (7) The date the employee was paid and the pay period covered by that payment; (8) For an employee who is paid on an hourly basis, all of the following information: (a) The total number of hours the employee worked in that pay period; (b) The hourly wage rate at which the employee was paid; (c) The employee's hours worked in excess of forty hours in one workweek. (C) An employee who does not receive a statement as required by division (B) of this section shall make a written request to the employee's employer to receive the statement. The employer shall provide the employee with the statement not later than ten days after receiving the request. If the employee does not receive the requested statement within the ten-day period, the employee may submit a report of the violation to the director of commerce. If, on receipt of a report, the director determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation exists, the director shall issue a written notice to the employee's employer. On receipt of a notice, the employer shall immediately post the notice, or a copy of the notice, in a conspicuous place on the employer's premises. The employer shall keep the notice posted for ten days. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.99
§ 4123.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4123.27 or 4123.28 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4123.50 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Whoever purposely violates such section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4123.81 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (D) Whoever violates section 4123.88 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (E) Whoever violates section 4123.417 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, and the persons who shall have paid a fee, compensation, or gratuity as prohibited by section 4123.417 of the Revised Code may recover by civil action three times the amount thereof, together with a reasonable attorney's fee, from the person to whom the sum was paid or given. Disclaimer Contact About