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OH HB538
Bill
Status
5/8/2012
Primary Sponsor
Nan Baker
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AI Summary
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Establishes section 4123.391 defining "learn to earn program" as a Department of Job and Family Services program providing short-term work experience placements to increase opportunities for permanent employment.
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Entitles injured learn to earn program participants who remain eligible for unemployment compensation to receive those benefits while disabled.
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Provides workers' compensation benefits under Ohio law to learn to earn participants whose disabilities make them ineligible for unemployment compensation or unable to work after unemployment benefits expire.
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Classifies learn to earn participants as employees of the Department of Job and Family Services (not the training entity) for workers' compensation purposes and bars liability lawsuits against the department, training entity, and related parties except for intentional torts.
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Authorizes the Department to include learn to earn participants in its workers' compensation coverage or establish separate coverage with the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and permits the Department to contract for indemnification against claims arising from the program.
Legislative Description
To prescribe the circumstances in which an individual who is injured or contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in a learn to earn program receives compensation under the Workers' Compensation Law or under Unemployment Compensation Law.
Learn-to-Earn Program worker-occupational disease-right to compensation
Last Action
To Economic & Small Business Development
5/8/2012