Ohio Questions and Answers

Manager wants me fired
I have a question concerning a hostile manager. When this person first came to my department two years ago, I was a second shift operations supervisor and had been one for seven years. This man was my...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 15, 2003 7:50 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Is this a law?
Hi! My question is? I am paid a salary wage (ex. $1170 bi monthly). But I am being told that I am an hourly employee. If I am a hourly employee I should get paid on a hourly wage not a salary wage. I ...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 10, 2003 6:56 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Retirement - Job Elimination
Are there any restrictions for an employer to adhere to before eliminating a position of an employee who is near retirement (less than 2 yrs to go before retirement).
1 answer  |  asked Apr 10, 2003 1:45 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Unpaid Training Hours
I recently took a position with a company. I trained for one week before actually beginning my job responsibilities. In the meantime I received a better offer from another company. I am now being told...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 2, 2003 10:33 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Family Medical Leave
My son fell on Thursady night. We took to Er. Er did not find the break. Friday I took him to a bone Dr. He has a broke hip. He is two years old. We are going to cast it on Tuesday. My question is doe...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 30, 2003 7:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Fired for a bad back...
A little over a year ago, I was involved in an auto accident that left me with a lower back injury. I got a job in a factory as what they term a "secondary." Basically, I am supposed to learn all of t...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 11, 2003 7:21 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Releasing an Employee on Maternity Leave
If a small employer (15 employees) has an employee with marginal performance (never documented)who goes on maternity leave and has a temp in the office who is an exceptional worker, can the employer t...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 10, 2003 09:04 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Employee AND contractor??
I am an employee with my employer withholding taxes on my pay. I started working for this company last May. On February 20 the boss came in with a 1099 and handed it to me. I got a W-2 in January. The...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 28, 2003 08:33 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Cut wages, If I quit, do I still get severence?
I am an V.P. of an Ohio based company. Due to lack of funding, everyone in the company was put on a mandatory lay-off for 3 weeks. At that time, it was verbally said that those employees that would go...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 26, 2003 3:35 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Fabricated document
My current boss threatened to fire me and had said that if i tried to claim unemployment he would fabricate a document that stated that i had missed a large number of work days and also had come in la...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 25, 2003 4:48 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio