Legal Alert: Breaking News for Ohio Employers

Keating Muething & Klekamp wants to alert you to breaking news regarding the proposed Ohio Healthy Families Act. As reported in The Cincinnati Enquirer today:

"Labor leaders today dropped their campaign for a ballot issue that would give most full-time workers seven paid sick days a year.

"Members of Ohioans for Healthy Families, an advocacy group that supported the sick-day mandate, said they have agreed with a request by Gov. Ted Strickland to keep the issue off the November ballot and avoid a negative and divisive campaign fight.

"The Ohio proposal would have required companies with at least 25 employees to give workers seven sick days a year, with unused sick time carrying over to the next year.

Ohioans for Healthy Families had submitted petitions for the issue to appear on the November ballot. The group said it will ask the Secretary of State's office to stop the process of verifying signatures."

Employers certainly will face this issue again at the state or federal level. Stay tuned.

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