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...If the director of job and family services establishes a direct deposit system under which an individual may agree to benefits being disbursed through electronic transfer to an account in a financial institution designated by the individual, the director shall make disbursements only to a financial institution that has a physical location in this state that the individual can access for the purpose of resolving dispu...

...(A) Except as otherwise specified in division (B) of this section, the amount of benefits payable to a claimant for any week with respect to which the claimant is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity or any other similar periodic payment which is based on the previous work of the individual, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the pension, retirement or...

...Except as permitted by Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code: (A) No agreement by an employee to waive his right to benefits is valid, nor shall benefits be assigned, released, or commuted; and (B) Such benefits are exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution, garnishment, attachment, and all other process or remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived.

...(A) The director of job and family services shall inform an individual who files an application for determination of benefit rights of all of the following at the time the individual files the application: (1) Unemployment compensation is subject to federal and state income taxes; (2) Requirements exist pertaining to estimated tax payments; (3) An individual may elect to have federal and state income taxes dedu...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Reasonable assurance" means a written, verbal, or implied agreement that the individual will perform services in the same or similar capacity during the ensuing sports season or seasonal period. (2) "Seasonal employment" means employment of individuals hired primarily to perform services in an industry which because of climatic conditions or because of the seasonal nature of suc...

...The director of job and family services shall establish and maintain a process for an employer to report that an applicant for or recipient of benefits has failed or is failing to meet any of the eligibility requirements described in division (A) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code. The process shall allow an employer to make a complaint through a conspicuous internet link located on the internet web site maintain...

...(A) If the director of job and family services finds that any fraudulent misrepresentation has been made by an applicant for or a recipient of benefits with the object of obtaining benefits to which the applicant or recipient was not entitled, and in addition to any other penalty or forfeiture under this chapter, then the director: (1) Shall within four years after the end of the benefit year in which the fraudulen...

...No agreement by an employee to pay any portion of the contribution or other payment required to be made by his employer under sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is valid. No employer shall make a deduction for such purposes from the remuneration or salary of any individual in this employ. Such sections do not affect the validity of private voluntary arrangements or plans by which employees i...

...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, of the Revised Code, shall cause such firm or corporation to comply with such sections.

...No person or no member of a firm or no president, secretary, general manager, or managing agent of a corporation, subject to this chapter, shall fail to comply with such sections relating to the making of reports or the payment of contributions to the unemployment compensation fund. Any fine collected for a violation of this section shall be paid to the director of job and family services and placed in such fund. E...

...(A) Any interested party may enjoin the further operation of an employer who has failed to pay the contributions or to make payments in lieu of contributions as required under this chapter. The procedure to obtain an injunction is governed by Chapter 2727. of the Revised Code and the right to such relief is in addition to the rights described in section 2727.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No construction contractor ...

...No employer, employee, or other person shall violate this chapter, or do any act prohibited by such chapter, or fail to perform any duty lawfully enjoined, within the time prescribed by the director of job and family services, for which no penalty has been specifically provided, or fail to obey any lawful order given or made by the director or any judgment or decree made by any court in connection with such sections....

...Any nonresident employer who exercises the privilege of having one or more individuals perform personal services for the nonresident employer within this state and any resident employer who exercises that privilege and thereafter removes from this state shall be deemed thereby to appoint the secretary of state as the employer's agent and attorney for the acceptance of process in any civil action under this section. T...

...( A) As used in this section, "critical infrastructure," "disaster response period," "disaster work," and " qualifying employee" have the same meanings as in section 5703.94 of the Revised Code. (B ) The director of job and family services may enter into reciprocal agreements with departments charged with the administration of the unemployment compensation law of any other state or the United States or Canada for ...

...(A) The director of job and family services may disclose information as provided in this section in accordance with federal law governing such disclosure and sections 4141.162, 4141.21, and 4141.211 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may make the state's record relating to the administration of this chapter available to the railroad retirement board and may furnish the board at the board's expense such copies t...

...(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 3510(F) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" with the secretary of the treasury to collect, as the agent of this state, the taxes imposed by this chapter on remuneration paid for domestic service in a private home of the employer. (B) Upon the director entering int...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the unemployment compensation administrative support other sources fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers, nonfederal grants, and other similar revenue sources. The director of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of unemployment insurance initiatives within the departmen...

...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 exist subject to the power of the general assembly to amend or repeal such sections at any time.

...Sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed.

...(A) There is hereby created the auxiliary services personnel unemployment compensation fund, which shall not be a part of the state treasury. The fund shall consist of moneys paid into the fund pursuant to section 3317.06 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall administer it in accordance with the directions of the director of job and family services. The director shall establish procedures under which scho...

...(A) No person shall acquire the trade or business of an employer, or a portion thereof, solely or primarily for the purpose of obtaining a lower rate of contributions under sections 4141.09, 4141.23, 4141.24, 4141.241, 4141.242, 4141.25, 4141.26, and 4141.27 of the Revised Code. (B) In determining whether the trade or business was acquired solely or primarily for the purpose of obtaining a lower rate of contribution...

...(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 other organizational unit of two or more employees that is designated by a participating employer in a shared work plan. (2) "Approved shared work plan" means an employer's shared work plan, submitted pursuant to section 4141.51 of the Revised Code, that satisfies all of the requir...

...(A) An employer who wishes to participate in the SharedWork Ohio program shall submit a plan to the director of job and family services in which the employer does all of the following: (1) Identifies the participating employees by name, social security number, affected unit, and normal weekly hours of work; (2) Describes the manner in which the employer will implement the requirements of the SharedWork Ohio progr...

...(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 director of job and family services approves the plan. An approved shared work plan expires at the end of the fifty-second calendar week after approval of the plan. (B) A participating employer who wishes to modify an existing approved shared work plan shall submit the modified...

...(A) An individual is eligible to receive shared work compensation for a week in which the individual satisfies all of the following: (1) The individual is employed by a participating employer and is subject to a shared work plan that was approved before that week and is in effect for that week. (2) The individual is available for work and is actively seeking work by being available for the individual's normal wee...