Ohio Unemployment Rate for February 2016 Released

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Ohio Unemployment Rate for February 2016 Released

Ohio's February 2016 unemployment rate remained unchanged from January 2016 at 4.9%.  This is an increase from 4.8% for December and 4.5% for November 2015.  It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015.  The number of unemployed increased from January by 6,000 to a total of 285,000.  The largest losses in jobs were state government losing 2,800 jobs, manufacturing losing 2,300, and leisure and hospitality reduced by 2,200.

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/17/16

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/17/16

The Sixth District affirms a UCRC decision granting unemployment benefits to an individual accused of violating a cellphone policy, where the hearing officer gave more credibility to the claimant's testimony during the hearing than to hearsay statements relied upon by the employer.

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DUI Appeals Reports 3/17/16

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DUI Appeals Reports 3/17/16

The Sixth District departs from prior holdings, bringing itself in line with other appellate courts, by holding that when a trial court does not follow R.C. 2937.07 by failing to obtain an explanation of the circumstances of an offense when accepting a no contest plea, the defendant should be acquitted rather than having the case simply remanded.

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/12/16

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/12/16

The Second District holds that an employer lacks just cause to terminate an employee for refusing to stop taking prescription morphine, even if he does not ask the doctor for alternative treatments.  Additionally, an employer may not justify reasons for a termination other than those actually used.

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DUI Appeals Reports 3/11/16

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DUI Appeals Reports 3/11/16

The 11th District holds that the OVI repeat offender specification is Constitutional and the only grounds to challenge prior convictions must be based on a lack of counsel, while the 12th District holds that the speedy trial clock for subsequent OVI charges based on chemical tests does not begin to run at the time of the original OVI charge.

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/11/16

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 3/11/16

The 8th District affirms a denial of unemployment benefits to an employee who stored files, including pornographic files, on his work computer, holding that rules applying to the State Personnel Board of Review do not apply to unemployment benefits.

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Ohio Unemployment Rate for January 2016 Released

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Ohio Unemployment Rate for January 2016 Released

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.

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/23/16

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/23/16

The Eighth District seems to hold that an officer may initiate a traffic stop whenever a vehicle switches lanes of traffic, regardless of whether the officer has reason to believe they failed to ascertain whether it was safe to do so.

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/22/16

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/22/16

The Eight District holds that R.C. 4510.54 and 4510.021 grant trial courts authority to terminate or modify license suspensions or grant occupational driving privileges, even if convicted of R.C. 2903.06 and 2903.08, with DUI specifications

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/21/16

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DUI Appeals Reports 02/21/16

The Fifth District rejects an argument that an OVI conviction should be overturned for assertions that impairment could be explained by childhood brain injury, a severe back injury, prostate cancer, the airbag went off in defendant's face, that flashing lights impaired ability to complete HGN, and Klonopin was taken after the accident.

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 2/8/16

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Unemployment Appeals Reports 2/8/16

The 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."

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