Ohio Questions and Answers

As an employer, once an employee is let go how do we control defamation of our business?
We are a childcare center and recently had to let a teacher, employed at-will, go for the negative work environment she creates and complaints from parents, teachers, and more. Since she has been gone...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 5, 2011 11:04 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Does a breach of contract cause the whole agreement to be voided in arbitration?
The owner of my company makes it a practice of going into accounts that the sales people opened and then stopping paying commissions to the sales people. The sales people are commissioned w2 employees...
2 answers  |  asked Dec 1, 2011 3:49 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Does a non-compete apply to clients who decide to leave the former employer
My non-compete states that I can not sell to anyone who was a client of my former employer. A large client that was mine has called me stating that they have fired my former employer. Would the non-co...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 1, 2011 3:26 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can an employer accomodite 2 employees sched. for childcare & deny 1 who has child w/diabetes?
I was working second shift & was asked by my employer to switch spots w/another employee & work mornings, now 3 months later the other employee wants mornings back for childcare reasons so they moved ...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 29, 2011 11:27 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Husband wrongfully denied FMLA due to wife's pregnancy?
My husband was on FMLA due to me being pregnant with our son. The first set of FMLA certification was filled out on April 15th and it was approved. He used FMLA whenever we had a doctors appointment. ...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 22, 2011 12:18 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

What if earned vacation is changed from work in the prior year to work in the current year?
I worked for a company for 44 years. For 40 years, the vacation that you took in the current year was for the time you worked the prior year. You did not get vacation the first year of employment. The...
2 answers  |  asked Nov 16, 2011 09:28 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Ask a current ee to fill in temp basis do we have to pay them the same wage?
Employee was handled clerical tasks is out on FMLA until Dec - prob longer - job duties have to be filled or we do not receive funding from the state. If we place somone in her position on an interm b...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 16, 2011 06:23 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

My doctor has advised me not to drive because I've been having dizzy spells and blackouts.
Most of the questions I've seen are in regards to companies refusal or disregard for FMLA. My question involves my neurologist's refusal to complete FLMA paperwork that my company has supplied to them...
1 answer  |  asked Oct 28, 2011 12:37 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

What can part-time indep contractors offer in terms of language to replace a non-competer clause?
I am being offered a temporary work assignment for 2 1/2 months as an independent contractor. I have worked for the company for 3 months via a staffing agency. The company now wants to make me a 1099 ...
1 answer  |  asked Oct 21, 2011 08:36 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

is there a time limit on return of drug testing?
I ran into a door at work and hit my nose. I was engrossed in my cell phone. I reported it as we are required. They made me take ,a drug test which I am fine with . due to having a urinary tract infec...
1 answer  |  asked Oct 20, 2011 10:22 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio