This Handbook provides an overview of federal laws addressing employer-employee rights and obligations. Information discussed includes wages & hours, discrimination, termination of employment, pension plans and retirement benefits, workplace safety, workers' compensation, unions, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and much more in 25 pages of materials.
Employment Law Handbook With Exercises In Cuyahoga
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You may have protections if you are hurt or injured on the job, or if you have a health problem caused by work. For example: Workers' compensation may apply. You may have the right to benefits like health care or medical bill payments.
11.0 HEARING AND SUBMISSION OF MOTIONS If the motion requires consideration of facts not appearing of record, the movant shall serve and file copies of all affidavits, depositions, photographs or documentary evidence which the movant desires to submit in support of the motion.
Increased State Minimum Wage Effective January 1, 2024, Ohio's minimum wage became $10.45 an hour for nontipped employees and $5.25 an hour for tipped employees, up from the 2023 minimum wage of $10.10 an hour for nontipped employees and $5.05 an hour for tipped employees.
Today's companies are open to ever-higher legal damage awards arising from employment practices violations, which may include allegations of: Discrimination. Harassment (sexual or otherwise). Failure to provide equal opportunity of employment. Wrongful termination.
The Act provides a statutory affirmative defense to hostile work environment claims as set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998).
To again cite the EEOC, workplace harassment that could cross the line into creating a hostile work environment “may include, but is not limited to, offensive jokes, slurs, epithets or name calling, physical assaults or threats, intimidation, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, offensive objects or pictures, and ...
When an employer provides a handbook in an at-will work state, the guidelines are treated as a legally binding extension of the employment contract. Other states have some exemptions, but not Ohio. This book is your opportunity to put your expectations in writing and receiving it implies consent.
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In Ohio, as in many other states, employment is considered “at-will.” This essentially means that an employer can fire or terminate an employee at any time for any reason, including reasons that are unfair or for no reason at all.
