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The Tenth District holds that a police officer who filed sexual harassment complaints lacks just cause to resign due to a purported failure to give the employer an adequate opportunity to resolve her complaints.
Read MoreThe 9th District avoids an evaluation of the constitutionality of the OVI repeat offender specification by holding the trial court erred in granting motions to dismiss, before the defendants were found guilty of or sentenced to the specification.
Read MoreOhio Unemployment Rates By County for February 2016
Read MoreThe Sixth District holds that proof that an employer terminated striking employees by replacing them with permanent replacements does not necessarily require written notice to the employees that they are permanently replaced, and therefore such employees became eligible for unemployment compensation on the date that the employer actually intended to, and began to, permanently replace them.
Read MoreThe First District joins the Second, Third, Eleventh, and Twelfth Districts in rejecting an Eighth District opinion finding the repeat OVI offender specification unconstitutional.
Read MoreOhio's February 2016 unemployment rate remained unchanged from January 2016 at 4.9%. This is an increase from 4.8% for December and 4.5% for November 2015. It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015. The number of unemployed increased from January by 6,000 to a total of 285,000. The largest losses in jobs were state government losing 2,800 jobs, manufacturing losing 2,300, and leisure and hospitality reduced by 2,200.
Read MoreThe Sixth District affirms a UCRC decision granting unemployment benefits to an individual accused of violating a cellphone policy, where the hearing officer gave more credibility to the claimant's testimony during the hearing than to hearsay statements relied upon by the employer.
Read MoreThe Sixth District departs from prior holdings, bringing itself in line with other appellate courts, by holding that when a trial court does not follow R.C. 2937.07 by failing to obtain an explanation of the circumstances of an offense when accepting a no contest plea, the defendant should be acquitted rather than having the case simply remanded.
Read MoreThe Second District holds that an employer lacks just cause to terminate an employee for refusing to stop taking prescription morphine, even if he does not ask the doctor for alternative treatments. Additionally, an employer may not justify reasons for a termination other than those actually used.
Read MoreThe 11th District holds that the OVI repeat offender specification is Constitutional and the only grounds to challenge prior convictions must be based on a lack of counsel, while the 12th District holds that the speedy trial clock for subsequent OVI charges based on chemical tests does not begin to run at the time of the original OVI charge.
Read MoreThe 8th District affirms a denial of unemployment benefits to an employee who stored files, including pornographic files, on his work computer, holding that rules applying to the State Personnel Board of Review do not apply to unemployment benefits.
Read MoreOhio's January 2016 unemployment rate increased again to 4.9% from 4.8% in December and 4.5% in November 2015. It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015. The number of unemployed increased from December by 6,000 to a total of 279,000. The largest losses in jobs were professional and business services losing 6,500 jobs and local government jobs losing 5,500.
Read MoreThe Eighth District seems to hold that an officer may initiate a traffic stop whenever a vehicle switches lanes of traffic, regardless of whether the officer has reason to believe they failed to ascertain whether it was safe to do so.
Read MoreThe Eight District holds that R.C. 4510.54 and 4510.021 grant trial courts authority to terminate or modify license suspensions or grant occupational driving privileges, even if convicted of R.C. 2903.06 and 2903.08, with DUI specifications
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