Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4141 - Unemployment Compensation

• Section 4141.01 - Unemployment Compensation Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) (1) "Employer" means the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities,...
• Section 4141.02, 4141.03 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.031 - Appointment Of Agricultural Ombudsperson.
  The director of the department of job and family services shall appoint a migrant agricultural ombudsperson as provided in section 3733.49 of the Revised...
• Section 4141.04 - Free Employement Services.
  The director of job and family services shall maintain or ensure the existence of public employment offices that are free to the general public....
• Section 4141.041 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-05-1987
• Section 4141.042 - Promoting Employment Competencies And Upward Mobility Of Women.
  The director of job and family services shall take affirmative steps to promote the employment competencies and upward mobility of women. The director shall...
• Section 4141.043 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-26-1987
• Section 4141.044 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-26-2003
• Section 4141.045 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 4141.046 - Prohibition Against Accepting Compensation For Securing Employment.
  No compensation or fee, either directly or indirectly, shall be charged or received from any person seeking employment through a public employment office described...
• Section 4141.047 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1993
• Section 4141.05, 4141.057 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.06 - Unemployment Compensation Review Commission.
  There is hereby created an unemployment compensation review commission consisting of three full-time members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of...
• Section 4141.07 - Non-lawyer Representatives - Commission Or Representative Fees Prohibited.
  (A) The unemployment compensation review commission, by rule, may authorize persons other than ones who are admitted to the practice of law also to...
• Section 4141.08 - Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council.
  (A) There is hereby created an unemployment compensation advisory council appointed as follows: (1) Three members who on account of their vocation, employment, or...
• Section 4141.09 - Unemployment Compensation Fund - Clearing Account, Unemployment Trust Fund Account, Benefit Account.
  (A) There is hereby created an unemployment compensation fund to be administered by the state without liability on the part of the state beyond...
• Section 4141.091 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-10-1998
• Section 4141.10 - Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created the unemployment compensation administration fund as a special fund in the state treasury. All moneys that are deposited or...
• Section 4141.11 - Unemployment Compensation Special Administrative Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the unemployment compensation special administrative fund. The fund shall consist of all interest collected on delinquent...
• Section 4141.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.13 - Director Of Job And Family Services - Additional Duties.
  In addition to all other duties imposed on the director of job and family services and powers granted by this chapter, the director may:...
• Section 4141.131 - Sale Of Real Property.
  The director of job and family services may enter into contracts for the sale of real property no longer needed by the director for...
• Section 4141.14 - Rules Of Director Subject To Approval Of Unemployment Compensation Review Commission.
  All rules of the director of the department of job and family services adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be approved by the unemployment...
• Section 4141.15 To 4141.161 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.162 - Establishing Income And Eligibility Verification System.
  (A) The director of job and family services shall establish an income and eligibility verification system that complies with section 1137 of the "Social...
• Section 4141.163 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.164 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1994
• Section 4141.17 - Oaths, Depositions, And Subpoenas.
  The director of job and family services and the unemployment compensation review commission may administer oaths, certify to official acts, take depositions, issue subpoenas,...
• Section 4141.18 - Employer Shall Keep Employment Record.
  Every employer, whether or not otherwise subject to this chapter, shall keep a true and accurate employment record of all the employer's employees, whether...
• Section 4141.19 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-18-1969
• Section 4141.20 - Employers To Furnish Information To Director - Quarterly Reports - Forfeiture.
  (A) Every employer, including those not otherwise subject to this chapter, shall furnish the director of job and family services upon request all information...
• Section 4141.21 - Information Maintained By Or Furnished Director Not Open To Public - Publication In Statistical Form.
  Except as provided in section 4141.162 of the Revised Code, and subject to section 4141.43 of the Revised Code, the information maintained by the...
• Section 4141.22 - Divulging Information.
  (A) No person shall disclose any information that was maintained by the director of job and family services or furnished to the director by...
• Section 4141.23 - Employer Contributions - Payments In Lieu Of Contributions.
  (A) Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year or other period as prescribed by this chapter. Such contributions...
• Section 4141.231 - Satisfying Employer's Deficiency.
  (A) If the director of job and family services determines that an employer is liable for unemployment compensation contributions or payments in lieu of...
• Section 4141.24 - Employer Accounts.
  (A) (1) The director of job and family services shall maintain a separate account for each employer and, except as otherwise provided in division...
• Section 4141.241 - Nonprofit Organizations As Employers.
  (A) (1) Any nonprofit organization described in division (X) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, which becomes subject to this chapter on or...
• Section 4141.242 - Public Entities As Employers.
  (A) On or after January 1, 1978, the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, and any subdivision thereof as defined in...
• Section 4141.25 - Contribution Rates.
  (A) The director of job and family services shall determine as of each computation date the contribution rate of each contributing employer subject to...
• Section 4141.251 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-26-1997
• Section 4141.26 - Notifying Employer Of Contribution Rate.
  (A) As soon as practicable after the first day of September but not later than the first day of December of each year, the...
• Section 4141.27 - Proceeding Against Employer Who Fails To Comply.
  If the director of job and family services finds that any person, firm, corporation, or association is, or has been, an employer subject to...
• Section 4141.28 - Determination Of Benefit Rights And Claims For Benefits.
  BENEFITS (A) FILINGS Applications for determination of benefit rights and claims for benefits shall be filed with the director of job and family services....
• Section 4141.281 - Appeal To Director.
  (A) APPEAL FILED Any party notified of a determination of benefit rights or a claim for benefits determination may appeal within twenty-one calendar days...
• Section 4141.282 - Appeal To Court.
  APPEAL TO COURT (A) THIRTY-DAY DEADLINE FOR APPEAL Any interested party, within thirty days after written notice of the final decision of the unemployment...
• Section 4141.283 - Unemployment Due To Labor Dispute.
  (A) Whenever the director of job and family services has reason to believe that the unemployment of twenty-five or more individuals relates to a...
• Section 4141.284 - Child Support Obligations.
  (A) When a claim for unemployment compensation is filed by an individual who owes child support obligations, the director of job and family services...
• Section 4141.285 - Unemployment Caused By Major Disaster.
  Where a claim for benefits is directly attributable to unemployment caused by a major disaster, as declared by the president of the United States...
• Section 4141.29 - Eligibility For Benefits.
  Each eligible individual shall receive benefits as compensation for loss of remuneration due to involuntary total or partial unemployment in the amounts and subject...
• Section 4141.291 - Voluntarily Quitting To Accept Recall.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, an individual who voluntarily quits work: (1) To accept a recall from a prior employer and...
• Section 4141.292 - State Disaster Unemployment Benefit Payment.
  An individual suffering total or partial unemployment directly attributable to a major disaster declared by the president of the United States pursuant to the...
• Section 4141.293 - Participation In Learn To Earn Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "learn to earn program" means any program established by the department of job and family services that offers...
• Section 4141.30 - Paying Benefits.
  (A) All benefits shall be paid through public employment offices in accordance with such rules as the director of job and family services prescribes....
• Section 4141.301 - Extended Benefit Period.
  (A) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Extended benefit period" means a period which: (a) Begins with the...
• Section 4141.31 - Benefits Reduced By Remuneration.
  (A) Benefits otherwise payable for any week shall be reduced by the amount of remuneration or other payments a claimant receives with respect to...
• Section 4141.311 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-06-1980; 09-05-2005
• Section 4141.312 - Benefits Reduced By Amount Of Governmental Payments Based On Individual's Previous Work. - Social Security.
  (A) Except as otherwise specified in division (B) of this section, the amount of benefits payable to a claimant for any week with respect...
• Section 4141.32 - No Waiver Or Assignment Of Benefits.
  Except as permitted by Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code: (A) No agreement by an employee to waive his right to benefits is valid,...
• Section 4141.321 - Federal Income Tax Decuted Or Withheld.
  (A) The director of job and family services shall inform an individual who files an application for determination of benefit rights on and after...
• Section 4141.33 - Seasonal Employment.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Reasonable assurance" means a written, verbal, or implied agreement that the individual will perform services in the...
• Section 4141.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-29-1971
• Section 4141.35 - Fraudulent Misrepresentations To Obtain Benefits - Other Reasons.
  (A) If the director of job and family services finds that any fraudulent misrepresentation has been made by an applicant for or a recipient...
• Section 4141.36 - Deductions From Salaries Not Permitted Except For Private Benefits.
  No agreement by an employee to pay any portion of the contribution or other payment required to be made by his employer under sections...
• Section 4141.37 - Compliance By Firm Or Corporation Mandatory.
  Each member of a firm and the president, secretary, general manager, and managing agent of every corporation subject to sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive,...
• Section 4141.38 - Prohibition Against Failure To Make Reports Or Pay Contributions.
  No person or no member of a firm or no president, secretary, general manager, or managing agent of a corporation, subject to this chapter,...
• Section 4141.39 - Injunction.
  (A) Any interested party may enjoin the further operation of an employer who has failed to pay the contributions or to make payments in...
• Section 4141.40 - Prohibition Against Violations Not Otherwise Specified.
  No employer, employee, or other person shall violate this chapter, or do any act prohibited by such chapter, or fail to perform any duty...
• Section 4141.41 - Secretary Of State Is Agent Of Employer For Service Of Process - Comity Between States.
  Any nonresident employer who exercises the privilege of having one or more individuals perform personal services for the nonresident employer within this state and...
• Section 4141.42 - Director May Enter Into Reciprocal Agreements.
  The director of job and family services may enter into reciprocal agreements with departments charged with the administration of the unemployment compensation law of...
• Section 4141.43 - Cooperation With Federal, State, And Other Agencies.
  (A) The director of job and family services may cooperate with the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, the United States internal revenue...
• Section 4141.431 - Domestic Service In Private Home.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 4141.20 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services shall attempt to enter into an agreement under section...
• Section 4141.432 - Unemployment Compensation Administrative Support Other Sources Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the unemployment compensation administrative support other sources fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers,...
• Section 4141.44 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2000
• Section 4141.45 - Right To Amend Or Repeal.
  All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or by acts done pursuant thereto, shall...
• Section 4141.46 - Liberal Construction Of Statutes.
  Sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 4141.47 - Auxiliary Services Personnel Unemployment Compensation Fund - Auxiliary Services Program Administrative Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created the auxiliary services personnel unemployment compensation fund, which shall not be a part of the state treasury. The fund...
• Section 4141.48 - Acquisition Of Trade Or Business To Lower Contribution Rate Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall acquire the trade or business of an employer, or a portion thereof, solely or primarily for the purpose of obtaining...
• Section 4141.50 - Sharedwork Ohio Definitions.
  (A) As used in this section and in sections 4141.51 to 4141.56 of the Revised Code: (1) "Affected unit" means a department, shift, or...
• Section 4141.51 - Participation In Sharedwork Ohio.
  (A) An employer who wishes to participate in the SharedWork Ohio program shall submit a plan to the director of job and family services...
• Section 4141.52 - Commencement And Duration Of Shared Work Plan.
  (A) A shared work plan approved under section 4141.51 of the Revised Code takes effect with respect to the week following the date the...
• Section 4141.53 - Eligibility For Shared Work Compensation.
  (A) An individual is eligible to receive shared work compensation for a week in which the individual satisfies all of the following: (1) The...
• Section 4141.54 - Employees Who Satisfy Availability Requirement.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, a participating employee who satisfies the availability requirement of division (A)(2) of section 4141.53...
• Section 4141.55 - Reimbursement.
  (A) If the state is eligible for and receives reimbursement for shared work compensation paid under the SharedWork Ohio program from the federal government...
• Section 4141.56 - Report.
  Beginning one year after the effective date of this section, and every year thereafter, the director of job and family services shall prepare and...
• Section 4141.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4141.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4141.22 of...

Last modified: October 10, 2016