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The FFCRA and Ohio’s Stay at Home Order

April 1, 2020
Published in Banking, Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law, FGKS News & Information
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Does Ohio's Stay at Home Order Trigger the FFCRA? Although we are still waiting on official guidance from the state of Ohio, new Department of Labor (“DOL”) guidance strongly suggests that Ohio’s stay at home order is not equivalent to a state isolation or quarantine order for purposes of a qualifying reason for paid leave [...]

OSHA Reporting Requirements Delayed

June 1, 2017
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update June 2017 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently decided to delay the compliance deadline for its rule requiring certain employers to electronically submit worker illness and injury data to the agency. OSHA’s Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements website states that: “OSHA is not accepting electronic submissions of injury [...]

Sexual Orientation Discrimination

May 17, 2017
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update May 2017 In a significant decision that expands the rights of employees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, recently ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of [...]

Overtime Injunction

November 23, 2016
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update November 2016 Yesterday evening, a federal judge in Texas issued a decision blocking the implementation of the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) new overtime rule, which would have expanded overtime pay to an estimated 4.2 million workers across the United States. The new rule, which was slated to take effect on December 1, [...]

OSHA Post-Injury Drug Testing

August 10, 2016
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update August 2016 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) recently published its final rule to “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses.” While the stated purpose of the rule is to impose electronic reporting requirements on certain employers for purposes of recordable workplace injuries and illnesses, perhaps the biggest impact of the [...]

BWC Class Action

September 15, 2014
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update September 2014 You may have recently received a Sworn Proof of Claim form from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC’) in regard to a $420 million refund program the BWC is administering. More than 270,000 Ohio employers are eligible to participate in this BWC refund program; however, all eligible employers [...]

Unpaid Interns

June 15, 2014
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation, Employment Law
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Employment Law Update June 2014 This Client Alert affects all businesses that employ “unpaid interns” for summer or seasonal work and their potential liability for minimum wage and overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and related Ohio laws. On June 11, 2013, in Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., a NY federal [...]

Construction Law Update

January 15, 2014
Published in Business Law, Civil Litigation
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Construction Law Update January 2014 This Client Alert affects all general contractors and businesses that contract for major construction services and their potential liability for claims from non-employed workers. On December 10, 2013, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals—the federal court responsible for all of Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee—reversed a district court’s decision to [...]