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The following descriptions and definitions provided by your Columbus employment lawyers are brief overviews of employment laws and employee rights in Ohio. These Ohio Labor Laws and their application to your situation are complex. This is not legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Before making any decision regarding your legal rights, it is important to schedule a Free Consultation with your Columbus Ohio employment attorneys and Ohio overtime lawyers. These practice areas do not provide a full range of Mansell Law’s legal services. If you have an employment concern that is not contained here, please contact your Ohio employment attorney to answer questions. Remember, we represent individuals all over Ohio, including Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Marion, Athens, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Mansfield. Our attorneys believe that no one should be subject to wrongful termination, a hostile work environment, or unlawful discrimination.
For more specific information about some of these employment laws and employment cases, check out our employment attorney law blog .
Unlawful harassment is a type of discrimination made unlawful by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other federal authority. Unwelcome verbal or physical actions based on race, color, religion, sex (whether or not of a sexual nature and including same-gender harassment.
Our Columbus Sexual Harassment Attorneys represent employees all over Ohio in sexual harassment cases and lawsuits. Do you feel harassed by your supervisors unwanted sexual advances or propositions related to your job? You could have a claim for workplace sexual harassment.
Not all claims fit neatly under one of the statutes for discrimination such as Title VII, the ADA, or the FMLA. So what if those statutes don’t apply? Ohio has a wrongful termination in violation of public policy claim for certain situations.
If the unlawful situation pertaining to you is also pertaining to others, you may be part of a wider class of unlawful conduct. For example, if you employer is failing to pay you over time, it is likely not paying other overtime as well. If any of the unlawful conduct described on this site is happening on a wide-scale basis.
A whistleblower is someone who reports to an employer, a regulatory body, or an oversight or review authority, the violation of a regulation, standard, or ethical obligation.
Be unemployed at the time of filing. Have at least 20 qualifying weeks of covered employment in the base period. Earn an average weekly wage of at least $222.00 (this amount changes each year)
Where the wrongdoing involves conduct that cheats the U.S. Government or causes the wrongful expenditure of U.S Government funds, a whistleblower may be entitled to bring suit under the Federal False Claims Act.
Our Ohio Background Check Lawyers are centrally located in Columbus and represent employees in wrongful terminations due to your employer’s failure to follow the background requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Our Columbus Ohio Discrimination Lawyers represent employees all over Ohio in discrimination cases and lawsuits. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4112 are employment laws that prohibit discrimination against individuals.
Our Columbus Ohio Pregnancy Discrimination Lawyers represent employees all over Ohio in pregnancy discrimination cases and lawsuits. Picture this: you work a full-time job, and you’ve recently discovered you are pregnant. You undoubtedly have a lot of questions: are you entitled to maternity leave in Ohio?
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) is a federal statute that protects the employment rights of service members and veterans. USERRA has two main protections. First, is the right to reemployment.
Filing a charge with the EEOC or OCRC is pre-requisite to filing a lawsuit under the federal discrimination laws regarding age, race, disability, religion, national origin and sex (gender).
What is considered unlawful retaliation or wrongful retaliation in the workplace?
Have you made a complaint about discriminatory treatment in your workplace? Has your employer taken action against you as a result of your complaint?
If you find yourself in a contract dispute, it is important to get a lawyer involved early on. Litigation is time consuming and expensive. Our attorneys have significant experience defending and enforcing contract disputes.
Non-Compete Agreements and Non-Solicitation Agreements – these broad restrictive agreements can mean the difference in you being able to earn a living.
Experienced and Top Rated Columbus Severance Agreement Lawyers at Mansell Law. We have successfully negotiated additional severance for our clients and have reviewed hundreds of severance agreements to make sure the terms are fair and just.
The Employment Attorneys at Mansell Law can assist you with employment contracts. Have you recently started a new job or otherwise been given an employment contract to sign as a condition of your continued employment?
What are the Ohio Overtime Laws and how should you be paid as an employee for overtime work? The overtime laws can be complex but they do not need to be. We have substantial experience in handling Ohio overtime claims ranging from single individual claims to class actions of more than 23,000 individuals.
Your Columbus, Ohio overtime attorneys represent employees throughout Ohio in claims for unpaid wages. We have recovered millions of dollars for our clients related to wage and hour violations, and our Ohio Employment lawyers can evaluate your case today
There is a federal minimum wage of $7.25 and a higher Ohio Minimum Wage of $10.45 (2024) for all employees except tipped employees. Under Ohio law, employees can recover up to three times the amount of unpaid minimum wage for Ohio minimum wage violations
A “tipped employee” is an employee engaged in an occupation in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The FLSA and Ohio law permits an employer to take a tip credit toward its minimum wage and overtime obligations.
Wage violations affect workers across across all industries and in any occupation. However, certain industries appear over and over again when it comes to unpaid overtime, unpaid minimum wage, misclassification or violation of meal and rest break laws. In addition, some industries, have special rules that apply to the calculation of wages and overtime.
Our Disability Discrimination Lawyers are available to explain the complex Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and to see if you have a case of disability discrimination or retaliation.
Our Columbus Ohio employment and disability attorneys represent clients throughout Ohio in cases of employer’s violating Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities.
Our Columbus Ohio FMLA attorneys represent employees all over Ohio for claims of discrimination, interference and retaliation with an employee’s FMLA rights. We have successfully won several verdicts related to FMLA discrimination, retaliation for taking or requesting medical leave, and violations of FMLA rights.
Long term disability (LTD) insurance is intended to help support you if you’re sick or injured and cannot work. Sadly, what should be a straightforward process is anything but simple.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for retirement and health plans that are voluntarily established by private sector employers to provide protection for individual participants in these plans.