Employment law

Overtime pay in Ohio is issued at time-and-a-half an employee’s base rate. This means that the specific payment is going to be different in every case, but that this general overtime rate always needs to be used. If an employee makes $20 an hour as their base wage,...

In a competitive job market, companies are doing everything possible to hold on to their top employees. One increasingly common strategy is the retention agreement, a contract designed to encourage valued staff to remain with the organization for a specified period of...

Consistent attendance is a key component of job performance. Employers need to be able to rely on their workers to show up when scheduled for their jobs. Many professionals pride themselves on consistent attendance. Unfortunately, sometimes personal circumstances...

Professionals negotiating a new position with an employer or preparing for a promotion often have to sign contracts. Frequently, employees simply sign whatever documents employers provide without reviewing them or countering the proposed terms in any meaningful way....

In an employment contract, a golden parachute is a payment guarantee often given to executives with the company. If that person loses their job in specific ways, they still receive a form of compensation. For instance, say that the executive works at a publicly traded...

Modern employers often include restrictive covenants in employment contracts to protect their organizations. Each new hire and significant internal promotion comes with a risk of damage to an organization. Employees can misuse what they learn at the company, reveal...

The size of a company can influence how workplace protections are handled. In Ohio, most legal rights apply regardless of how many employees a business has.  Still, the way those rights are enforced and experienced can differ between large and small employers. Here...

In many cases, sexual harassment is a one-way street. For instance, maybe there is one female worker in an office full of male workers. They create a hostile work environment by constantly making lewd or sexual comments about their female coworker. She eventually...

Businesses do not have to make all kinds of accommodations for a worker who has a disability. Some requests may be unreasonable. For instance, if the accommodations would cost $100,000, there may be no way that a small business can realistically meet those financial...

In many cases, it is fully legal for an employer to cut an employee’s pay. But there are also cases in which this could be a violation of the employee’s rights. It’s important to understand where this line is and when it could be crossed. Essentially, pay cuts have to...