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Ohio Rev Code § 4113.71 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4113 | Miscellaneous Labor Provisions|Section 4113.71 | Immunity of Employer as to Job Performance Information Disclosures.

Effective: July 3, 1996|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 44 - 121st General Assembly|(A) As used in this section:(1) "Employee" means an individual currently or formerly employed by an employer.(2) "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state, any person employing one or more individuals in this state, and any person directly or indirectly acting in the interest of the state, political subdivision, or such person.(3) "Political subdivision" and "state" have the same meanings as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code.(B) An employer who is requested by an employee or a prospective employer of an employee to disclose to a prospective employer of that employee information pertaining to the job performance of that employee for the employer and who discloses the requested information to the prospective employer is not liable in damages in a civil action to that employee, the prospective employer, or any other person for any harm sustained as a proximate result of making the disclosure or of any information disclosed, unless the plaintiff in a civil action establishes, either or both of the following:(1) By a preponderance of the evidence that the employer disclosed particular information with the knowledge that it was false, with the deliberate intent to mislead the prospective employer or another person, in bad faith, or with malicious purpose;(2) By a preponderance of the evidence that the disclosure of particular information by the employer constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice described in section 4112.02, 4112.021, or 4112.022 of the Revised Code.(C) If the court finds that the verdict of the jury was in favor of the defendant, the court shall determine whether the lawsuit brought under division (B) of this section constituted frivolous conduct as defined in division (A) of section 2323.51 of the Revised Code, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the lawsuit constituted frivolous conduct, it may order the plaintiff to pay reasonable attorney's fees and court costs of the defendant.(D)(1) This section does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against an employer.(2) This section does not affect any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by another section of the Revised Code or available at common law to which an employer may be entitled under circumstances not covered by this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4113.75 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4113 | Miscellaneous Labor Provisions|Section 4113.75 | Automatic Contributions to Employee Retirement Plan.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th 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 except that "employer" does not include the state, any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision, or any agency or instrumentality of any of those entities.(2) "Employee retirement plan" means an employee retirement plan described in section 401(k) or 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code or a payroll deduction individual retirement account plan described in section 408 or 408A of the Internal Revenue Code.(3) "Internal Revenue Code" means the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1 et seq., as amended.(B)(1) Notwithstanding section 4113.15 of the Revised Code, an employer may create and implement a program for automatically withholding a specified percentage of employees' wages to be contributed on behalf of the employees to an employee retirement plan. The program shall allow an employee to affirmatively elect not to participate in the program and not have wages withheld under the program.(2) The employer shall provide each participating employee with all of the following:(a) Notice of the percentage of the employee's wages that will be withheld and contributed on behalf of the employee to an employee retirement plan unless the employee affirmatively elects not to participate in the plan;(b) At least one opportunity each calendar quarter to select investments for the employee's contributions between investment alternatives available under the plan;(c) A description of every investment alternative available for employee investment direction under the plan;(d) Notice of the default investment decisions that will be made in the absence of the employee's direction;(e) A brief description of available procedures that allow an employee to change investments;(f) A report, at least once a year, of the actual default investments made of contributions attributable to the employee.(3) An employer that creates or implements a program described in division (B) of this section shall provide its participating employees with reasonable opportunities to affirmatively elect not to participate in the program and not have wages withheld under the program. An affirmative election not to participate in a program shall be effective as soon after the employer receives the election as is administratively feasible.
Ohio Rev Code § 4113.81 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4113 | Miscellaneous Labor Provisions|Section 4113.81 | Collective Bargaining.

Effective: September 29, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly|The state shall not engage in collective bargaining with individuals who are excluded from coverage under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code and the "National Labor Relations Act of 1935," 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C. 151, as amended. This section does not apply with respect to individuals who are exempt from Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code pursuant to division (C) of section 4117.01 of the Revised Code but with whom the state may collectively bargain pursuant to division (C) of section 4117.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4113.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4113 | Miscellaneous Labor Provisions|Section 4113.99 | Penalty.

Effective: January 1, 1974|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 581 - 110th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates section 4113.15 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.(B) Whoever violates section 4113.16, 4113.18, or 4113.19 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.(C) Whoever violates section 4113.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor in the fourth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.02 | Maximum Consecutive Hours for Firemen on Duty.

Effective: November 19, 1969|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4115.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.031 | Discharge of Obligation of Contractor or Subcontractor.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The obligation of a contractor or subcontractor to make payment in accordance with the prevailing wage determinations of the director of commerce, insofar as Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code is concerned, may be discharged by the making of payments in cash, by the making of contributions of a type referred to in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code or by the assumption of an enforceable commitment to bear the costs of a plan or program of a type referred to in division (E)(3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, or any combination thereof, where the aggregate of any such payments, contributions, and costs is not less than the rate of pay described in division (E)(1) plus the rates referred to in divisions (E)(2) and (3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code.In determining the overtime pay to which the laborer or mechanic is entitled under any federal or state law, the person's regular or basic hourly rate of pay (or other alternative rate upon which premium rate of overtime compensation is computed) shall be deemed to be the rate computed under division (E)(1) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, except that where the amount of payments, contributions, or costs incurred with respect to that person exceeds the prevailing wage applicable to the person under Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code, such regular or basic hourly rate of pay (or such other alternative rate) shall be arrived at by deducting from the amount of payments, contributions, or costs actually incurred with respect to the person, the amount of contributions or costs of the types described in divisions (E)(2) and (3) actually incurred with respect to the person, or the amount determined under divisions (E)(2) and (3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code but not actually paid, whichever amount is the greater.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.033 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.033 | Subdividing Public Improvement Projects.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|No public authority shall subdivide a public improvement project into component parts or projects, the cost of which is fairly estimated to be less than the threshold levels set forth in division (B) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, unless the projects are conceptually separate and unrelated to each other, or encompass independent and unrelated needs of the public authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.034 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.034 | Adjusting Threshold Levels for Public Improvement Projects.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|On January 1, 1996, and the first day of January of every even-numbered year thereafter, the director of commerce shall adjust the threshold levels for which public improvement projects are subject to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code as set forth in divisions (B)(3) and (4) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code. The director shall adjust those amounts according to the average increase or decrease for each of the two years immediately preceding the adjustment as set forth in the construction cost index published by the engineering news-record or, should that index cease to be published, a similar recognized industry index chosen by the director, provided that no increase or decrease for any year shall exceed three per cent of the threshold level in existence at the time of the adjustment.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.06 | Contract to Contain Provision Requiring Payment of Certain Wage Rate.

Effective: August 25, 1976|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1304 - 111th General Assembly|In all cases where any public authority fixes a prevailing rate of wages under section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, and the work is done by contract, the contract executed between the public authority and the successful bidder shall contain a provision requiring the successful bidder and all his subcontractors to pay a rate of wages which shall not be less than the rate of wages so fixed. The successful bidder and all his subcontractors shall comply strictly with the wage provisions of the contract.Where a public authority constructs a public improvement with its own forces, such public authority shall pay a rate of wages which shall not be less than the rate of wages fixed as provided in section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, except in those instances provided for in sections 723.52, 5517.02, 5575.01, and 5543.19 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.07 | Full Payment of Wages - Records.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|All contractors and subcontractors required by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, and the action of any public authority to pay not less than the prevailing rate of wages shall make full payment of such wages in legal tender, without any deduction for food, sleeping accommodations, transportation, use of small tools, or any other thing of any kind or description. This section does not apply where the employer and employee enter into an agreement in writing at the beginning of any term of employment covering deductions for food, sleeping accommodations, or other similar item, provided such agreement is submitted by the employer to the public authority fixing the rate of wages and is approved by such public authority as fair and reasonable.All contractors or subcontractors falling within or affected by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, shall keep full and accurate payroll records with respect to wages paid each employee and the number of hours worked by each employee, covering all disbursements of wages to their employees to whom they are required to pay not less than the prevailing rate of wages. Such payroll records shall be open to inspection by any authorized representative of the contracting public authority, including the prevailing wage coordinator or the director of commerce at any reasonable time and as often as may be necessary, and such records shall not be destroyed or removed from the state for the period of one year following the completion of the public improvement in connection with which the records are made. There shall be posted in a prominent and accessible place on the site of the work a legible statement of the schedule of wage rates specified in the contract to the various classifications of laborers, workers, and mechanics employed, said statement to remain posted during the life of each contract.Each contractor or subcontractor shall file with the contracting public authority upon completion of the public improvement and prior to final payment therefor an affidavit stating that the contractor or subcontractor has fully complied with sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.08 | Failure to Ascertain Prevailing Rates of Wages.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|No public official, authorized to contract for or construct with the official's own forces a public improvement, shall fail, before advertising for bids or undertaking such construction with those forces, to have the director of commerce determine the prevailing rates of wages of mechanics and laborers for the class of work called for by the 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 § 4115.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.09 | Awarding of Contract Without Ascertaining Prevailing Rates of Wages.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4115.101 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.101 | Prevailing Wage Custodial Fund.

Effective: September 10, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|There is hereby created the prevailing wage custodial fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall not be part of the state treasury. The director of commerce shall deposit to the fund all money paid by employers to the director that are held in trust for employees to whom prevailing wages are due and owing. The director shall make disbursements from the fund in accordance with this chapter to employees affected by violations of this chapter. If the director determines that any funds in the prevailing wage custodial fund are not returnable to employees as required under this section, then the director shall certify to the treasurer of state the amount of the funds that are not returnable. Upon the receipt of a certification from the director in accordance with this section, the treasurer of state shall transfer the certified amount of the funds from the prevailing wage custodial fund to the industrial compliance operating fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.11 | Paying Wages in Full in Cash.

Effective: November 3, 1965|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 201 - 106th General Assembly|Employers who have not established a plan, by a labor agreement or otherwise, for the provision of wages as defined in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code shall pay the prevailing rates of wages in full in cash.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.12 | Administrative Rules for Contractors and Subcontractors.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|In order to facilitate the administration of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, and to achieve the purposes of those sections, the director of commerce may adopt reasonable rules, not inconsistent with those sections, for contractors and subcontractors engaged in the construction, prosecution, completion, or repair of a public improvement financed in whole or in part by any public authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 4115.131 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.131 | Contract Disputes.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4115.132 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4115 | Wages and Hours on Public Works|Section 4115.132 | Director of Commerce - Investigatory Powers.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|In any investigation undertaken by the director of commerce pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director, a designated representative, or hearing examiner may administer oaths, take and cause to be taken depositions of witnesses, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, payrolls, documents, records, and testimony relating to and relevant to the violation under investigation. In case of contumacy, failure, or refusal of any person, contractor, or subcontractor to obey the order, any court of common pleas having jurisdiction of the person, contractor, or subcontractor, upon application of the director or representative designated by the director shall have jurisdiction to issue to the person, contractor, or subcontractor an order requiring the person, contractor, or subcontractor to appear before the director or a representative designated by the director, to produce evidence as is ordered, and to give testimony relating to the matter under investigation or in question. Any failure to obey an order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.