Employment Law

The appeal for an employer is that telemedicine services generally reduce benefit costs and increase convenience and access to care for group health plan participants. If you’re like most people, you don’t enjoy sitting in a doctor’s office with other coughing and sneezing people while waiting for your appointment, or wasting half a day just to get a prescription refilled.

While I regularly get calls from employees claiming to have been terminated for “whistleblowing,” I have found that most employees cannot meet the stringent requirements of the statute. The Ohio Whistleblower Protection Act prohibits employers from taking disciplinary or retaliatory action against an employee who reports criminal conduct. However, the act only applies to certain criminal violations and will only

Is the writing on the wall for an extension of Title VII protections to LGBTQ employees? In a recent landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal court of appeals in the nation to rule sexual orientation claims are actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although not binding on courts (or

When an employer is hiring a new employee, it must engage in a balancing act between protecting the interests of its customers, with the rights of the prospective employee. Under Ohio law, an employer may be held liable under a theory of negligent hiring for injuries sustained by customers or other third parties for injuries caused by an employee who

According to a recent article in the New York Times, older employees, even those of retirement age, are staying in the workforce longer. Some are working longer out of necessity while others remain simply because of increased longevity. Whatever the cause for the trend, it is important to understand the laws that are in place to protect this older generation

On March 21, 2017, a new gun law went into effect in Ohio that expands the rights of concealed carry permit holders, allows active-duty members of the armed forces to carry weapons without a concealed carry license if certain conditions are met, and broadens the scope of places where those permit holders may carry their firearms. But what does this

Many people believe it is illegal to terminate an employee who missed work due to illness. While this may be true some of the time, it is not always the case. Only those employees who qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) have job protection while off due to illness. Eligible employees have up to 12 weeks of

If you have ever reviewed a severance agreement on behalf of an employee, you have likely come across a series of acronyms like ADEA, ADA, ADAA, GINA, FMLA, WARN, OWBPA and ERISA, just to name a few. That agreement likely required the employee to release all of these claims, and many others, in exchange for some consideration. But did you

Wells Fargo has come under immense pressure not only publicly, but politically and legally, for its scheme that caused over two million accounts to be opened in customers’ names without their consent. If you haven’t read about this, Wells Fargo had institutional goals and incentives in place that paid its retail banking employees substantial bonuses for opening new customer accounts.