Employment Law

Presented in partnership with: Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP Ohio employers face a host of challenges created by fast-moving compliance requirements. To keep our members updated on employment law-related...

Ohio employers face a host of challenges created by fast-moving compliance requirements. To keep our members updated on employment law-related issues, the OAB’s Ohio counsel of Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and...

For nearly 30 years, Ohio taxpayers have been searching for an “easy answer” to avoid sales tax on employment services. There is no short supply of people who claim to...

On December 14, 2018, a District Court in Texas held that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.  Texas v. United States, No. 4:18-cv-00167 (N.D. Tex. 12/14/2018).  However, this is...

In August 2018, Gaffers v. Kelly Services, Inc., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an arbitration agreement that required individual arbitration of claims under the federal Fair Labor Standards...

The FCC recently announced a proposal to move the agency staff responsible for enforcing the Commission’s equal employment opportunity (“EEO”) rules from the Media Bureau to the Enforcement Bureau.  Chairman...

A newly filed collective action in Ohio federal court against an oil and gas company highlights the importance of wage-hour law compliance and the potential ramifications for failing to do...

Ohio broadcast stations—both radio and television—with five or more full-time employees must upload their annual EEO Public File Report in their online public inspection file and post it to their...

On April 23, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a second draft of a model form, the Disclosure Template, that a group health plan participant (or his or her...

Another FCC reporting requirement may also be on its way out.  Comments are due May 21, 2018, on the Commission’s Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) that would eliminate FCC Form 397,...