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The idea that grounds workers' compensation coverage requirements is a good one. Ohio businesses can protect themselves from the possibility of financial liability for a worker's injury or illness by providing such coverage. Additionally, workers also benefit because...
In State of Ohio ex rel. AutoZone Stores Inc. v. Indus. Comm., 10th Dist. No. 21AP-294, 2023-Ohio-633, decided on March 2, 2023 the Tenth District Court of Appeals interpreted R.C. 4123.56(F) which provides: If an employee is unable to work or suffers a wage...
On February 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule banning non-compete agreements with its release of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. If this rule becomes law, it would drastically change the labor market across all sectors of the...
While you are making 2023 New Year Resolutions, please resolve to record work related injuries timely and appropriately on the OSHA logs. If you are an employer with more than 10 employees and are otherwise required to keep a record of serious work-related injuries...
Bugbee & Conkle, LLP congratulates April Renner on her promotion to Staff Hearing Officer for the Industrial Commission. Ms. Renner recently began taking hearings as an SHO in Toledo. There has been no announcement on whether a new District Hearing Officer will...
Hiring new workers will mean expanding what your company is capable of doing, but it will also mean increasing the risk of some kind of interpersonal conflict or future misconduct by that new hire. Workers can make mistakes, break the law, steal from the company or...
The Supreme Court of the United States rendered a 6-3 opinion enforcing the stay, in other words blocking, OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employers of 100 or more employees to enforce a vaccine or test requirement in its entirety. The Court focused on OSHA’s authority to issue such a mandate. The Court found that the Occupational Health and Safety…
The flurry of vaccine mandate litigation continues. We recently wrote on a federal district court’s preliminary injunction blocking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) mandate across the country. However, a recent subsequent decision by the Fifth Circuit reinstated the CMS vaccine mandate for the majority of the United States. In the opinion, the Fifth Circuit, per curiam, found…
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On November 10, 2021, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. (“Uber”) alleging violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Uber violated the ADA by failing to modify its wait-time policy. This lawsuit is one of the many ADA Title III lawsuits filed…