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Ohio's January 2016 unemployment rate increased again to 4.9% from 4.8% in December and 4.5% in November 2015. It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015. The number of unemployed increased from December by 6,000 to a total of 279,000. The largest losses in jobs were professional and business services losing 6,500 jobs and local government jobs losing 5,500.
Read MoreThe Sixth District affirms that fault is an essential component to just cause and explains it, "will not disrupt the hearing officer's decision to accord more weight to claimant's live testimony over the appellant's hearsay evidence."
Read MoreOhio's December 2015 unemployment rate increased to 4.7% from 4.5% in November 2015 and the fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015, with the number of unemployed increasing from November by 14,000 to a total of 269,000.
Read MoreThe Ninth District declines to extend the limited waiver exception to unemployment benefits for union employees when "there is no termination package at issue, where the leave at issue could last indefinitely, and where the leave at issue was not contemplated as part of any collectively bargained agreement in the record."
Read MoreJob figures for December show a better than expected increase of jobs while the unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, as did the numbers of long-term unemployed, involuntary part-time workers, and people marginally attached to the labor force.
Read MoreThe Twelfth District affirms a denial of unemployment benefits due to a resignation without just cause, declining to find a constructive discharge from being placed on the first step of progressive discipline even though the Employer told the employee that it did not think she was going to work out.
Read MoreThe Ninth District holds that ODJFS need not show intent to prove fraudulent misrepresentation, which can instead be proven by simply showing that (1) a claimant made a false statement, and (2) either knew or should have known that the statement was false.
Read MoreEmployees who have been terminated should try to discover whether their employer had a progressive discipline policy and review whether it was followed. If the employer did not follow their progressive discipline policy, there may be a good argument that it did not have just cause to terminate the employment relationship.
Read MoreOhio's November 2015 unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.5% from a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October, with the number of unemployed increasing from October by 6,000 to a total of 255,000.
Read MoreThe Tenth District relies on its limited standard of review for unemployment compensation cases to reject an appeal of a denial of unemployment compensation to an employee who had been approved during her determination, redetermination, and hearing, only to find herself denied after a rehearing.
Read MoreTo qualify for unemployment after a resignation, an employee should first notify their employer of the problems they are experiencing at work and give the employer an opportunity to correct them. Documentation is important as well.
Read MoreOhio unemployment benefits will be denied to those who are forced to quit due to family obligations. As a result, employers are able to change schedules regardless of the impact on an employee and their need to care for their children, and the employee who finds themselves with the Hobson's choice of abandoning their children to keep their job, or resigning and being left without unemployment compensation to care for their family while they search for new work.
Read MoreThe unemployed worker still finds hurdles when searching for suitable employment where they live in the best of economies, let alone Ohio's economy. Even with unemployment benefits, they face foreclosures, evictions, and repossessions. Without the benefits, the blunt truth is that many will face homelessness and hunger.
Read MoreThe Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services released the unemployment rate for October 2015, reporting that it decreased to 4.4% from 4.5% in September. This is also down from 5.2% in October 2014. The October 2015 rate is reported to be the lowest since 2001.
Read MoreI am an attorney with Sivinski Law Offices, providing legal representation for labor and employment issues, criminal defense, DUI defense, and family law. I am admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
I am also a father ofthree lively children, a member of St. Peter's Catholic church in Huron, and we enjoy all opportunities to get outdoors to cycle, hike, fish, play catch with our redbone coonhound Duke, barbecue, and to explore my enjoyment of photography.
by Brian J. Smith, Esq
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