Ohio Questions and Answers

Employer asking me to violate their own trade secret aggreement.
Two years ago my employer had me sign a non-compete and a trade secrets agreement. However, since then my employer has repeatedly asked me to violate the trade secrets agreement (and possibly the non-...
2 answers  |  asked Mar 31, 2010 07:50 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

can an employer delete hours from an employees paycheck for allegedly not clocking out?
My former employer has deleted approx 20 hours from my paycheck stating that I did not clock out. The system does an auto clock out at 5am and as the former general manager of a tavern was often still...
2 answers  |  asked Mar 30, 2010 5:17 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

commission
I am a commison salesperson My question is can my employer change my commison structure without telling there employees? I have asked for the #s from management and told I could get the structure but ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 26, 2010 5:33 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Is it legal for my employer to change commision structure without telling sales people?
I worked as a car salesman at a local dealer for 9 years. Over the last 3 years i noticed my commisions were going down. I was told by an office employee that our "pack" was raised, when i asked for a...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 25, 2010 8:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

I took on an additional 40 hr job while still doing mine with no extra pay increase
Recently the other office girl quit and I was assigned her complete job title along with mine. No extra payment compensation was given so I now do 80 hours of work in a 40 hour workweek. I also am not...
2 answers  |  asked Mar 13, 2010 3:51 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Employer verbally waived their non-compete at a meeting with several attendie and is now retracting.
I am a nurse who brought several patients to my now former employer. During a meeting several nurses called due to having bounced paychecks and wondering if the company was in danger, we asked if we c...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 13, 2010 07:02 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Can my employer (school district) refuse to pay me for extra time worked?
I am a school bus driver and my district pays each route driver 4 1/4 hours per school day. However my route and several others take at least 5 hours daily to complete. We put this extra time on our b...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 12, 2010 10:51 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Made-up Rule
Question: Can a new rule (law) be made up on a whim when supervisors want to remove a person from their current position? My last employer stated that all secretaries had to support at least 2 doctors...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 8, 2010 07:38 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Layoff to Termination
I've been layed off for more than 12 months. Now my company has brought everyone else back but me. I've gotton the run around when I asked why I'm not being brought back. Reasons like new company poli...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 6, 2010 6:41 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Age discrimination?
I was recently terminated from after 11 years of very good performance reviews, due to violation of their "social networking policy". My offense had to do with a personal site. The CEO of the company ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 2, 2010 06:30 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio