Labor Law Requirements
State Requirements
- Minimum Wage (Required)
- Fair Employment (Required)
- Child Labor Laws (Required)
- Unemployment Insurance (Recommended)
- Workers’ Compensation* (Required)
- Self-Insured (Workers’ Compensation)** (Required)
*Official versions of this poster are available only from the agency or its authorized agent
**Employers that are Self-insured must call the Better Workers’ Compensation at 1-800-644-6292 to obtain a poster.
Federal Requirements
- Family and Medical Leave (Required)
- Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
- USERRA (Required)
- OSHA (Required)
- Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
- Polygraph Protection Test (Required)
Recent Changes
- Child Labor Law - Minimum Wage - May 2010
- • Child Labor Law - Non-Substantive changes include formatting changes, the website address changed to www.com.ohio.gov, and the address changed to 6606 Tussing Rd., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068.
• Minimum Wage - Non-Substantive changes include removal of a logo, other formatting changes, and the addition of "Post in a conspicuous place" footer that includes contact information for the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Labor & Workers Safety.
- Unemployment Insurance Notice - March 2009
- Logo and revision date update.
- Minimum Wage - January 2009
- For employers who gross over $267,000.00, the minimum wage will increase from $7.00 per hour to $7.30 per hour for non-tipped employees. The minimum wage for tipped employees will increase from $3.50 per hour to $3.65 per hour.
Employees of businesses who gross under $267,000.00 or employees under the age of 16 shall be paid no less than the federal minimum wage which is $6.55 per hour and will increase on July 24, 2009 to $7.25 per hour.
- Fair Employment - March 2008
- “Military status” has been added as a protected class in employment discrimination.
This was a Substantive change
- Minimum Wage - January 2008
- The minimum wage will increase to $7.00 per hour, and the tipped wage will increase to $3.50 per hour as of January 1, 2008. Also, the amount employers must gross in order to be required to pay the Federal minimum wage rate is increasing to $255,000.
This was a Substantive change