Opinion ID: 6343305
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The bureau’s administrative determinations

Text: {¶ 12} Relying principally on the right-to-control test espoused in Gillum v. Indus. Comm., 141 Ohio St. 373, 48 N.E.2d 234 (1943), and Bostic v. Connor, 37 Ohio St.3d 144, 524 N.E.2d 881 (1988), the bureau’s adjudicating committee determined that Ugicom had misclassified the installers and Lule as independent contractors. Ugicom then sought review by the administrator’s designee. See R.C. 4123.291(B) (“An employer who is adversely affected by a decision of an adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator may appeal the decision of the committee to the administrator or the administrator’s designee”). Ugicom did not present any new testimony to the administrator’s designee, relying instead on the arguments of its counsel. The designee affirmed the adjudicating committee’s decision, adopting its statement of facts and legal rationale and “find[ing] that, under the common law test of Gillum and Bostic, Ugicom exercises control over the workers[,] and    the Bureau’s auditor’s conclusion that the workers are employees [was] correct based on these facts and under the law.”