Category: Ohio
Ohio District Court Rejects Multiple Challenges to Electronically Signed Arbitration Agreement
From JDSupra, Gregory Mersol discusses a recent decision in Ohio that upheld an arbitration agreement that was electronically…
Ohio Eighth District Court Of Appeals Reverses Enforcement Of Employment Arbitration Agreement
From JDSupra, Samia Kirmani, Patrick Peters, James Stone and Corey Donovan Tracey discuss a recent case in…
Ohio Limits Joint Employment Status For Franchisors
From Lexology, Mathew A. Parker reports on the new Ohio statute that limits the liability of franchisors as joint…
You Win Some, You Lose Some: A Review Of Some Recent Misclassification Decisions
From Mondaq, Richard R. Meneghello discusses three misclassification cases including an unusual one where the worker was a former…
American Family granted appeal in case over agents’ employment status
From the Journal Sentintel, Paul Gores reports that American Family is appealing a ruling that agents were…
Ohio Jury Says Insurance Agents were Misclassified
From JDSupra, Richard J. Reibstein reports that an Ohio jury found that insurance agents were misclassified as…
Three US states have already blessed Uber’s independent contractor employment model
From Quartz, Alison Griswold reports that three states — North Carolina, Arkansas and Indiania — have pass laws…
Court Upholds Independent Contractor Status of Delivery Truck Driver
OKAn alert from Calfee, Halter and Griswold reports that an Ohio appeals court held that a home delivery…
Misclassifying workers can cause tax woes
From Cincinnati.com: Advantages of hiring an employee • The hourly wage for an employee is usually less…
Senator Sherrod Brown – Helping Ohio workers receive the benefits they deserve
From the registerherald.com — To cut costs, some employers cheat the system by misclassifying their employees as independent contractors….
Stricter definition of ‘employee’ sought in Ohio
From The Akron Legal News — State Reps. Debbie Phillips and Denise Driehaus are stumping for the passage of…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wants to close worker classification loopholes
From the Mansfield News Journal | mansfieldnewsjournal.com — By classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees under federal…
