Effective: April 4, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 690 – 126th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) “Wage” means compensation due to an employee by reason of employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to the deductions, […]
Effective: March 21, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 331 – 131st General Assembly Every employer, as defined in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, shall pay each of the employer’s employees at a wage rate of not less than the wage rate specified in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. The director of […]
Effective: July 6, 2022 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 47 – 134th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 4111.031 of the Revised Code, an employer shall pay an employee for overtime at a wage rate of one and one-half times the employee’s wage rate for hours worked in excess of forty hours in one […]
Effective: July 6, 2022 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 47 – 134th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, an employer is not required to pay the overtime wage rate under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code to an employee for any time that the employee spends performing any […]
Effective: April 4, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 690 – 126th General Assembly The director of commerce may: (A) Investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the state; (B) Enter and inspect the place of business or employment of any employer for the purpose of inspecting any books, registers, payrolls, […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly The director of commerce shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as the director considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code. The rules may be amended from time […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly In order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, to avoid undue hardship, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly The director of commerce may adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code, permitting employment of apprentices at a wage rate not less than eighty-five per cent of the minimum wage rate applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised […]
Effective: January 1, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 690 – 126th General Assembly Every employer subject to section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, or to any rule adopted thereunder, shall make and keep for a period of not less than three years a record of the name, address, and occupation of each of the employer’s […]
Effective: April 4, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 690 – 126th General Assembly Every employer subject to sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or to any rules issued thereunder, shall keep a summary of the sections, approved by the director of commerce, and copies of any applicable rules issued thereunder, or a summary […]
Effective: July 6, 2022 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 47 – 134th General Assembly (A) Any employer who pays any employee less than wages to which the employee is entitled under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, is liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the overtime wage rate, less any amount actually […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 110th General Assembly Any standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, or other working conditions in effect under any other law of this state on the effective date of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, which are more favorable to employees than those […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 110th General Assembly Nothing in sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code interferes with, impedes, or in any way diminishes the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly (A) No employer shall hinder or delay the director of commerce in the performance of the director’s duties in the enforcement of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or refuse to admit the director to any place of employment, or […]
Effective: July 3, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 62 – 133rd General Assembly (A) Pursuant to the general assembly’s authority to establish a minimum wage under Section 34 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, this section is in implementation of Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. In implementing Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, […]
Effective: July 1, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 471 – 123rd General Assembly (A) No employer, including the state and political subdivisions thereof, shall discriminate in the payment of wages on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to any employee at a rate less than the […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 110th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (A) or (D) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor […]
