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...The new African immigrants commission shall do all of the following: (A) Gather and disseminate information and conduct hearings, conferences, investigations, and special studies on problems and programs concerning sub-Saharan African people; (B) Secure appropriate recognition of the accomplishments and contributions of sub-Saharan African people to this state; (C) Stimulate public awareness of the problems of...

...igin, and shall be American citizens or lawful, permanent, resident aliens. Voting members shall be from urban, suburban, and rural geographical areas representative of sub-Saharan African people with a numerical and geographical balance of the sub-Saharan African population throughout the state. The commission shall elect a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and other officers from among its voting members as it cons...

...The office of new African immigrant affairs is created. The office shall be accountable to the new African immigrants commission. The director of the office shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the commission. The director, with the approval of the commission, shall appoint such employees as are necessary to carry out the duties of the office. The employees shall serve at the pleasure of the director...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the new African immigrants grant and gift fund. The fund shall consist of money received as grants or gifts under section 4112.31 of the Revised Code and any money transferred or appropriated to the fund by the general assembly. The new African immigrants commission shall use the money to support the commission's duties, including the operation of the office of new Africa...

...(A) Whoever violates this chapter is subject to a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, or any other appropriate relief. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a person may bring such a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (B) A person is prohibited from bringing a civil action for employment discrimination under this section.

...A day's work in a mechanical,manufacturing, or mining business shall consist of eight hours and shall be so enforced unless the contract therefor expressly provides otherwise.

...Every undertaking or promise, whether written or oral, express or implied, constituting, or contained in, any contract or agreement of hiring or employment between any individual, firm, association, or corporation, and any employee or prospective employee of the same, whereby either party to such contract or agreement undertakes or promises not to join, become, or remain a member of any labor organization or of any o...

...tion to any other liability existing by law that any person in the employ of such employer, in any way having power or authority in directing or controlling any other employee of such employer, is not the fellow servant, but superior to such other employee; any person in the employ of such employer in any way having charge or control of employees in any separate branch or department shall be held to be the superior a...

...If the employee of any employer referred to in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code receives any personal injury by reason of any defect or unsafe condition in any ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, except simple tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the business of the employer, such employer is deemed to have had knowledge of such defect before and at the time such ...

...In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised code the negligence of a fellow servant of the employee is not a defense where the injury or death was in any way caused or contributed to by any of the following causes: (A) Any defect or unsafe condition in the ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, except simple tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the busin...

...t rules and regulations, or the lack of enforcement of same, for the government of such employees in the construction, operation, and maintenance of such ways, works, boats, wharves, machinery, plant, appliances, or tools, or the employing or retention of any incompetent servant.

...e the violation by such employer of any law of this state or of the United States enacted for the safety of employees in any way contributed to the injury or death of such employee unless by the terms of his employment it was expressly made the duty of such employee to report such violation to the employer and the evidence shows that such employee failed to report and that the employer was not possessed of knowledge ...

... retained in employment contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States, such employee shall not be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence, nor held to have assumed any of the risks of such employment. The employer may show by way of defense any fraud or misrepresentation made by such employee.

...In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code, any contract, rule, regulation, or device, the purpose or intent of which is to enable any employer to exempt himself from any liability created by sections 4113.03 to 4113.09, inclusive, and sections 2125.01 to 2125.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is to that extent void. In any action brought against any employer under sections 4113.03 to 4113.08, ...

...A child working in or in connection with a factory, workshop, business office, telephone or telegraph office, restaurant, bakery, hotel, apartment house, or mercantile or other establishment, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, who appears to an inspector of workshops and factories to be under the legal age, or refuses to give to such inspector his name, age, and place of residence, sh...

...e and federal unemployment compensation law; (8) Legal services available to veterans; (9) The availability of any other benefit or service relevant to veterans that the directors determine should be included on the poster. (B) An employer employing employees in this state may display a copy of the poster created under division (A) of this section on the employer's premises in a conspicuous place that is freque...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" and "employer" have the same meanings as in section 4113.51 of the Revised Code. (2) "Workweek" means a fixed, regularly recurring period of one hundred sixty-eight hours that an employer expressly adopts for purposes of complying with section 7 of the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," 29 U.S.C. 207. (B) Every employer shall provide each of the employer's employees ...

... by written contract or by operation of law. (B) Where wages remain unpaid for thirty days beyond the regularly scheduled payday or, in the case where no regularly scheduled payday is applicable, for sixty days beyond the filing by the employee of a claim or for sixty days beyond the date of the agreement, award, or other act making wages payable and no contest court order or dispute of any wage claim including the ...

...No employer subject to section 4113.15 of the Revised Code shall, by a special contract with an employee or by other means, exempt the employer from this section and section 4113.15 of the Revised Code, and no assignments of future wages, payable semimonthly under such sections are valid except as provided in section 1321.32 of the Revised Code.

...No person, firm, or corporation engaged in any enterprise in this state shall sell or procure for sale to its employees any article, product, or merchandise not of its own production or not handled in its regular course of trade, excepting meals, confections, tobacco products, and such specialized appliances, or supplies and equipment, as may be required in said enterprise for the employees' safety and health, or in ...

...No person shall compel, seek to compel, or attempt to coerce an employee of himself or another to purchase goods or supplies from a particular person, firm, or corporation.

...No person shall sell goods or supplies to his employee , or pay such employee wages or a part thereof in goods or supplies, directly or through the intervention of scrip, orders, or other evidence of indebtedness, at higher prices than the reasonable or current market value in cash of such goods or supplies, or, without an express contract with his employee, deduct or retain the wages of such employee, or a part ther...

...A person violating section 4113.18 or 4113.19 of the Revised Code is liable to the party aggrieved in double the amount of charges made for such wares, tools, and machinery, or for the amount received for such goods or supplies in excess of the reasonable or current market value in cash thereof.

...(A) No private employer shall require any prospective employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the employer as a condition of employment. (B) No public employer or private employer furnishing services to a public employer in accordance with a contract subject to the "Service Contract Act of 1965," 41 U.S.C. 6701 et seq., shall require any employee, prospective employ...

...The prosecuting attorney, upon complaint made to him of a violation of section 4113.18 or 4113.19 of the Revised Code, shall cause such complaint to be investigated before the grand jury.