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...2) Direct, supervise, evaluate, or hire employees; (3) Maintain and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental operations; (4) Determine the overall methods, process, means, or personnel by which governmental operations are to be conducted; (5) Suspend, discipline, demote, or discharge for just cause, or lay off, transfer, assign, schedule, promote, or retain employees; (6) Determine the adequacy ...

...otection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders, and establish and maintain museums of safety and hygiene in which shall be exhibited safety devices, safeguards, and other means and methods for the protection of life, health, safety, and welfare of employees...

...e or is injurious to the welfare of any employee or frequenter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall proceed with or without notice to make an investigation as is necessary to determine the matter complained of. (B) After such hearing as is necessary, the bureau may enter any necessary order relative thereto to render the employment or place of employment safe and not injurious to the welfare of the employees t...

... that purpose. (2) A rule barring any employee of the bureau or commission from having a workers' compensation claims file in the employee's possession unless the file is necessary to the performance of the employee's duties. (3) All claims, whether of a state fund or self-insuring employer, be processed in an orderly, uniform, and timely fashion. (4) Rules governing the submission and sending of applications, ...

...ting council. The administrator and all employees of the bureau and the commission shall give the ombudsperson system staff full and prompt cooperation in all matters relating to the duties of the chief ombudsperson. (B) The ombudsperson system staff shall: (1) Answer inquiries or investigate complaints made by employers or claimants under this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code as they relate to the ...

...rotect the lives, health, and safety of employees pursuant to Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Chapter 4167. of the Revised Code and rules and standards adopted thereunder are not the rules or enactment referred to in this division and shall not be considered as such for purposes of this section. (B) If a staff hearing officer, in the course of the staff hearing officer's determination of a claim for a...

... chapter applies to employers and their employees engaged in intrastate commerce and also in interstate and foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by congress, only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may be and is clearly separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, and then only when such employer and ...

...eau of workers' compensation by injured employees and the dependents of killed employees on account of injury or death sustained by such employees in the course of their employment, the commission and bureau may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for the taking of depositions in civil actions in the court of common pleas.

...therwise, received or contracted by his employees in the course of their employment and resulting in seven days or more of total disability. Within a week after acquiring knowledge of an injury or death therefrom, and in the event of occupational disease or death therefrom, within one week after acquiring knowledge of or diagnosis of or death from an occupational disease or of a report to the employer of the occupati...

...preceding each biennium, the officer or employee of each state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or any other state agency required to submit a budget request to the director of budget and management for any biennium shall provide the bureau of workers' compensation with the estimated number of employees of the state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or other state agency for...

...r of workers' compensation shall employ employees as is necessary to the discharge of the administrator's duties and responsibilities hereunder. The salaries and expenses of the employees shall be paid by the treasurer of the state from the fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised Code as provided in section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.

...The employee, employer, and their respective representatives are entitled to written notice of any hearing, determination, order, award, or decision under this chapter and the administrator of workers' compensation and his representative are entitled to like notice for orders issued under divisions (C) and (D) of section 4123.511 and section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. An employee, employer, or the administrator is...

...The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease begins is the basis upon which to compute benefits. In cases of temporary total disability the compensation for the first twelve weeks for which compensation is payable shall be based on the full weekly wage of the claimant at the time of the injury or at the time of the disability d...

... noncompliance, but are liable to their employees for damages suffered by reason of personal injuries sustained in the course of employment caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of the employer, or any of the employer's officers, agents, or employees, and also to the personal representatives of such employees where death results from such injuries, and in such action the defendant shall not avail self of t...

...ion of the lives, health, and safety of employees, or when the same is occasioned by the willful act of the employer or any of the employer's officers or agents, or by which it is agreed that the insurer shall pay any such damages. No license or authority to enter into any such agreements or issue any such policies of insurance shall be granted or issued by any public authority in this state. Any corporation or...

...trict or staff hearing officer or other employee of the bureau or commission, notwithstanding the provisions of section 4123.27 of the Revised Code, shall divulge any information in respect of any claim or appeal which is or may be filed with a district or staff hearing officer, the bureau, or commission to any person other than members of the commission or to the superior of the employee except upon authorization of...

...to that claim: (1) The employer of the employee who is the subject of the claim pays premiums into the state insurance fund. (2) The claim is based on a motor vehicle accident involving a third party. (3) Either of the following circumstances apply to the claim: (a) The third party is issued a citation for violation of any law or ordinance regulating the operation of a motor vehicle arising from the accident on w...

...zation agreement and is assigned shared employees by the professional employer organization. (C) "Coemploy" means the sharing of the responsibilities and liabilities of being an employer. (D) "Professional employer organization" means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into an agreement with one or more client employers for the purpose of coemploying...

...ganization shall report any transfer of employees between related professional employer organization entities or professional employer organization reporting entities to the administrator within fourteen calendar days after the date of the transfer on a form prescribed by the administrator. The professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity shall include in the form all clie...

... of the Revised Code: (A) "Work-relief employee" means any person engaged in any public relief employment, and receiving "work-relief," who is under the supervision and control of any employer mentioned in this section or any agency of such employer. (B) "Work-relief" means public relief given in the form of public funds or goods, on the basis of the budgetary needs of the work-relief employee and his dependents, i...

... to be known as the "public work-relief employees' compensation fund," and all compensation, death benefits, and expenses for medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funerals, shall be paid out of the fund. Such premiums shall be collected, the moneys of the fund disbursed and the fund maintained, without regard to or reliance upon any other fund mentioned in Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. This sec...

... (B) The administrator shall employ the employees necessary to the discharge of his duties and responsibilities under sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall pay the salaries and expenses of those employees from the fund created by section 4131.13 of the Revised Code upon warrants authorized and signed as described in section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.

...A worksite employee under an alternate employer organization agreement shall not, solely as a result of being a worksite employee, be considered an employee of the alternate employer organization for purposes of general liability insurance, fidelity bonds, surety bonds, employer liability not otherwise covered by Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, or liquor liability insurance carried by the alternate empl...

...d Code, shall notify the organization's employees upon hiring that the organization, and the employee's employment with the organization, are exempt from this chapter.

... can be classed as a representative of employees. Not more than two of the members of the commission shall belong to the same political party. No member of the commission shall hold any office of trust or profit or engage in any occupation or business interfering or inconsistent with the member's duties as a member and no member shall serve on any committee of any political party. The commission shall elect a ...