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H. B. No. 179 As IntroducedAs Introduced
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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A BILL
To enact section 3109.054 of the Revised Code to
require certain employers to allow a parent to
exercise court-ordered parenting time without
terminating the parent's employment, reducing the
parent's pay, or taking other similar action
against the parent.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3109.054 of the Revised Code be
enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3109.054. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Public agency" means an office, agency, department,
bureau, or other governmental entity of the state or of a
political subdivision of the state.
(2) "Employer" means any of the following:
(a) Any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or
activity affecting commerce who employs fifty or more employees
for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar work
weeks in the current or preceding calendar year;
(b) Any person who acts, directly or indirectly, in the
interest of an employer to any of the employees of such employer;
(c) Any successor in interest of an employer;
(B) A parent granted parenting time pursuant to an order
issued under Title XXI or XXXI of the Revised Code or by a court
of competent jurisdiction of any other state may provide the
parent's employer with a copy of the schedule of parenting time
created pursuant to that order if parenting time coincides with
the parent's regularly scheduled hours of employment. Upon receipt
of the schedule, the employer shall allow the parent to exercise
parenting time according to the schedule and shall not terminate
the parent's employment, reduce the parent's pay, or take any
other similar adverse action against the parent for exercising the
parenting time.
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