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Title 41, Title 41. Labor and Industry

27 chapters · 669 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 41669 Ch 4123, Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation158 Ch 4141, Chapter 4141 | Unemployment Compensation78 Ch 4121, Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission…68 Ch 4104, Chapter 4104 | Boilers37 Ch 4113, Chapter 4113 | Miscellaneous Labor P…37 Ch 4112, Chapter 4112 | Civil Rights Commission31 Ch 4117, Chapter 4117 | Public Employees' Col…27 Ch 4115, Chapter 4115 | Wages And Hours On Pu…25 Ch 4105, Chapter 4105 | Elevators24 Ch 4111, Chapter 4111 | Minimum Fair Wage Sta…17 Ch 4167, Chapter 4167 | Public Employment Ris…17 Ch 4109, Chapter 4109 | Employment Of Minors16 Ch 4164, Chapter 4164 | Ohio Nuclear Developm…16 Ch 4125, Chapter 4125 | Professional Employer…15

78 sections·Filtered byTitle 41✕Ch 4141✕

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.01 Unemployment compensation definitions
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A)(1) "Employer" means any of the following, provided the individual or entity is subject to this chapter under section 4141.011 of the Revised Code: any state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.011 Employer subject to the unemployment compensation law
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(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 preced…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.02 Notice to exempt nonprofit employees
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A nonprofit organization that is not subject to this chapter pursuant to division (B) of section 4141.011 of the Revised Code, and that does not elect to become an employer subject to this chapter pursuant to division (H) of section 4141.011 of the Revised Code, shall notify the …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.04 Free employment services
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The director of job and family services shall maintain or ensure the existence of public employment offices that are free to the general public. These offices shall exist in such number and in such places as are necessary for the proper administration of this chapter, to perform …

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.042 Promoting employment competencies and upward mobility of women

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The director of job and family services shall take affirmative steps to promote the employment competencies and upward mobility of women. The director shall place particular emphasis on education, child care, labor conditions, equality of entrance requirements, and eligibility fo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.046 Prohibition against accepting compensation for securing employment

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No compensation or fee, either directly or indirectly, shall be charged or received from any person seeking employment through a public employment office described in section 4141.04 of the Revised Code. No person shall violate this section.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.06 Unemployment compensation review commission

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There is hereby created an unemployment compensation review commission consisting of three full-time members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be staggered and shall be for six years, commencing on the twenty-eighth day of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.07 Non-lawyer representatives - commission or representative fees prohibited

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(A) The unemployment compensation review commission, by rule, may authorize persons other than ones who are admitted to the practice of law also to appear before the commission in any kind of proceeding as representatives of employers or claimants. The commission may prescribe in…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.08 Unemployment compensation integrity board

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(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 prop…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.09 Unemployment compensation fund - clearing account, unemployment trust fund account, benefit account

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(A) There is hereby created an unemployment compensation fund to be administered by the state without liability on the part of the state beyond the amounts paid into the fund and earned by the fund. The unemployment compensation fund shall consist of all contributions, payments i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.10 Unemployment compensation administration fund

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(A) There is hereby created the unemployment compensation administration fund as a special fund in the state treasury. All moneys that are deposited or paid into this fund are available to the director of job and family services only for the administration of this chapter. All mo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.11 Unemployment compensation special administrative fund

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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 receiv…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.13 Director of job and family services - additional duties

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(A) In addition to all other duties imposed on the director of job and family services and powers granted by this chapter, the director may: (1) Adopt and enforce reasonable rules relative to the exercise of the director's powers and authority, and proper rules to govern the dire…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.131 Sale of real property

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The director of job and family services may enter into contracts for the sale of real property no longer needed by the director of job and family services for the operations of the director of job and family services under this title. Any costs attributable to the director of job…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.14 Rules of director subject to approval of unemployment compensation review commission

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All rules of the director of the department of job and family services adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be approved by the unemployment compensation review commission before the rules become effective. All such rules shall specify on their face their effective date and the …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.162 Establishing income and eligibility verification system

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(A) The director of job and family services shall establish an income and eligibility verification system that complies with section 1137 of the "Social Security Act." The programs included in the system are all of the following: (1) Unemployment compensation pursuant to section …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.163 Income verification for federal benefit programs

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(A) For any federal program administered by the director of job and family services in a manner similar to this chapter that provides money payments for loss of remuneration for services performed under any contract of hire that is not employment as defined in section 4141.01 of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.17 Oaths, depositions, and subpoenas

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The director of job and family services and the unemployment compensation review commission may administer oaths, certify to official acts, take depositions, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, recor…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.18 Employer shall keep employment record

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Every employer, whether or not otherwise subject to this chapter, shall keep a true and accurate employment record of all the employer's employees, whether qualified and eligible to benefits or not, and of the hours worked by each employee and of the wages paid to the employee, a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.20 Employers to furnish information to director - quarterly reports - forfeiture

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(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 bla…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.21 Information maintained by or furnished director not open to public - publication in statistical form

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(A) Except as provided in this section and sections 4141.162 and 4141.211 of the Revised Code, and subject to section 4141.43 of the Revised Code, the information maintained by the director of job and family services or the unemployment compensation review commission or furnished…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.211 Disclosure of information

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(A)(1) As used in this section, and except as provided in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section, "unemployment compensation information" means information maintained by the director of job and family services or the unemployment compensation review commission, or furnished to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.22 Divulging information

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(A) No person shall disclose any information that was maintained by the director of job and family services or the unemployment compensation review commission or that was furnished to the director or the commission by employers or employees pursuant to this chapter, unless such d…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.23 Employer contributions - payments in lieu of contributions

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(A) Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year or other period as prescribed by this chapter. Such contributions become due and shall be paid by each employer to the director of job and family services for the unemployment compensation f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.231 Satisfying employer's deficiency

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(A) If the director of job and family services determines that an employer is liable for unemployment compensation contributions or payments in lieu of contributions, interest, forfeitures, or fines totaling an amount that exceeds one thousand dollars which remain due and unpaid …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.24 Employer accounts

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(A)(1) The director of job and family services shall maintain a separate account for each employer and, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of section 4141.25 of the Revised Code respecting mutualized contributions, shall credit such employer's account with all the contr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.241 Nonprofit organizations as employers

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(A)(1) Any nonprofit organization described in division (X) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, which becomes subject to this chapter on or after January 1, 1972, shall pay contributions under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, unless it elects, in accordance with this divi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.242 Public entities as employers

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(A) On or after January 1, 1978, the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, and any subdivision thereof as defined in division (H) of this section and described in this section as public entities, and Indian tribes as defined by sect…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.25 Contribution rates

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(A) The director of job and family services shall determine as of each computation date the contribution rate of each contributing employer subject to this chapter for the next succeeding contribution period. The director shall determine a standard rate of contribution or an expe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.251 Unemployment compensation interest contingency fund

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(A) Beginning October 1, 2016, if the director of job and family services has paid interest charged under section 1202(b) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1322(b), for an advance made to the state under section 1201 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1321, from the un…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.26 Notifying employer of contribution rate

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(A) As soon as practicable after the first day of September but not later than the first day of December of each year, the director of job and family services shall notify each employer of the employer's contribution rate as determined for the next ensuing contribution period pur…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.27 Proceeding against employer who fails to comply

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If the director of job and family services finds that any person, firm, corporation, or association is, or has been, an employer subject to this chapter, which determination of liability has become final pursuant to the provisions of section 4141.26 of the Revised Code, and has f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.28 Determination of benefit rights and claims for benefits

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BENEFITS (A) FILINGS Applications for determination of benefit rights and claims for benefits shall be filed with the director of job and family services. Such applications and claims also may be filed with an employee of another state or federal agency charged with the duty of a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.281 Appeal to director

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APPEALS (A) APPEAL FILED Any party notified of a determination of benefit rights or a claim for benefits determination may appeal within twenty-one calendar days after the written determination was sent to the party or within an extended period as provided under division (D)(9) o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.282 Appeal to court

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APPEAL TO COURT(A) THIRTY-DAY DEADLINE FOR APPEALAny interested party, within thirty days after written notice of the final decision of the unemployment compensation review commission was sent to all interested parties, may appeal the decision of the commission to the court of co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.283 Unemployment due to labor dispute

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.284 Child support obligations

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(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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.285 Unemployment caused by major disaster

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Where a claim for benefits is directly attributable to unemployment caused by a major disaster, as declared by the president of the United States pursuant to the "Disaster Relief Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1745, 42 U.S.C.A. 4402, and the individual filing the claim would otherwise ha…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.286 Mandatory checks for determining benefit rights and eligibility

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When determining whether an application for determination of benefit rights is valid or determining whether a first claim or additional claim for benefits allows a claimant to qualify for benefits, in addition to other information available, the director of job and family service…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.287 Data matching - incarcerated individuals

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The director of job and family services shall enter into a data matching agreement with the department of rehabilitation and correction. The agreement shall require the director of rehabilitation and correction to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.288 Data matching - death records

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The director of job and family services shall enter into a data matching agreement with the director of health under which the director of health shall allow the director of job and family services to match death records maintained in accordance with section 3705.02 of the Revise…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.29 Eligibility for benefits

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Each eligible individual shall receive benefits as compensation for loss of remuneration due to involuntary total or partial unemployment in the amounts and subject to the conditions stipulated in this chapter. (A) No individual is entitled to a waiting period or benefits for any…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.291 Voluntarily quitting to accept recall

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(A) Notwithstanding section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, an individual who voluntarily quits work:(1) To accept a recall from a prior employer and establishes that the refusal or failure to accept the recall would have resulted in a substantial loss of employment rights, benefits…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.292 State disaster unemployment benefit payment

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An individual suffering total or partial unemployment directly attributable to a major disaster declared by the president of the United States pursuant to the "Disaster Relief Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 143, 42 U.S.C. 5121, who is not eligible to be paid unemployment compensation ben…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.293 Participation in learn to earn program

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(A) As used in this section, "learn to earn program" means any program established by the department of job and family services that offers a structured, supervised training opportunity to an eligible unemployment compensation claimant with a designated worksite training provider…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.30 Paying benefits

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(A) All benefits shall be paid through public employment offices in accordance with such rules as the director of job and family services prescribes. (B) With the exceptions in division (B)(4) of this section, benefits are payable to each eligible and qualified individual on acco…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.301 Extended benefit period

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(A) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Extended benefit period" means a period which:(a) Begins with the third week after a week for which there is a state "on" indicator; and(b) Ends with either of the following weeks, whichever occurs l…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.302 Direct deposit

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If the director of job and family services establishes a direct deposit system under which an individual may agree to benefits being disbursed through electronic transfer to an account in a financial institution designated by the individual, the director shall make disbursements …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.31 Benefits reduced by remuneration

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(A) Benefits otherwise payable for any week shall be reduced by the amount of remuneration or other payments a claimant receives with respect to such week as follows: (1) Remuneration in lieu of notice; (2) Compensation for wage loss under division (B) of section 4123.56 of the R…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.312 Benefits reduced by amount of governmental payments based on individual's previous work. - social security

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(A) Except as otherwise specified in division (B) of this section, the amount of benefits payable to a claimant for any week with respect to which the claimant is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity or any other similar periodic payment w…