Starting October 27, 2025, employers in Cleveland will need to adjust their hiring practices to align with the city’s newly enacted pay transparency and compensation history law. On April 30, 2025, Cleveland passed legislation mandating that employers disclose salary ranges and scales in job advertisements. Additionally, the law prohibits employers
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Cleveland’s Pay Transparency and Compensation History Law: Breaking Down the New Employer Requirements
TakeawaysThe new law goes into effect on 10.27.25. It requires employers to include salary ranges and scales when advertising job openings and bars them from inquiring about applicants’ compensation history.The law applies to private employers that employ at least 15 people within the city.Employers should review their practices and start preparing for the new requirements now.Related link
Cleveland Will Prohibit Salary Inquiries and Require Salary Ranges in Job Postings
On April 28, 2025, the Cleveland City Council unanimously passed Ordinance No. 104-2025 (the “salary ordinance”), which will ban any employer that employs fifteen or more employees in the City of Cleveland, as well as any employment agency operating on the employer’s behalf, from asking about or considering a job
Cleveland Adopts Salary History and Transparency Law
Cleveland Adopts Salary History and Transparency Law
On April 28, 2025, the Cleveland, Ohio City Council adopted Ordinance 104-2025, which requires employers with at least 15 employees in Cleveland to include salary ranges in job postings and prohibits inquiring about an applicant’s salary history. The ordinance, which will take effect
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Unlocking Ohio Pay Stub Transparency: New Requirements Employers Need to Know Before April 2025
Beginning April 9, 2025, Ohio employers must produce detailed and accurate pay stubs under the new Pay Stub Protection Act (PSPA).Employers must provide employees with a statement, or access to a statement, of the employee’s earnings and deductions for each pay period that includes the following information, either in paper or electronic form:
Ohio’s Pay Stub Protection Act: What Employers Need to Know
Effective April 9, 2025, the Pay Stub Protection Act, codified as Ohio Revised Code Section 4113.14, mandates that every employer in the state provide each of their employees with a written or electronic pay statement that includes the employee’s earnings and deductions for each pay period, on the employer’s regular
Ohio Now Requires Employers to Provide Pay Statements
On January 8, 2025, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the Pay Stub Protection Act, which takes effect on April 8, 2025. This act, which the Ohio House and Senate passed unanimously, requires all Ohio employers to provide pay statements to employees containing specific information about wages and hours worked.
Ohio Streamlines Unemployment Insurance Reporting for Commonly Controlled, Concurrent Employers
New for January 1, 2025, Ohio has streamlined its unemployment insurance reporting process to allow employers that control multiple corporate entities to report unemployment insurance for their concurrent employees in a single account.
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On November 27, 2024, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 104, adding Ohio to the list of a dozen states with restrictions on bathroom access by transgender individuals. The law—officially, the “Protect All Students Act,” though coined the “Bathroom Bill” by many—outlines specific guidelines and restrictions
Impact of Ohio Legal Recreational Marijuana on Employers: All Smoke and No Fire?
In November 2023, Ohio passed a recreational marijuana law. Sales of recreational marijuana began on August 6 in the Buckeye State, and employers can expect an uptick in employee use.
Employers’ rights with respect to marijuana use are unaffected by the new law. Employers are not:
Required to permit
Ohio Federal Court Rules Judicial Approval Not Required in FLSA Settlements
In Gilstrap v. Sushinati LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio rejected the notion that the parties’ private agreement to settle claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) required court approval.
The district court’s decision in Gilstrap follows a growing body of case law
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On February 14, 2024, in Schaad v. Alder, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the constitutionality of a temporary Ohio law allowing municipalities where a principal place of business was located to collect income tax from individuals working from home outside the municipality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ohio Supreme
Columbus, OH, Salary History Ban Goes Into Effect March 1, 2024
Starting March 1, 2024, the City of Columbus ordinance banning inquiries into an applicant’s salary history goes into effect. This ordinance applies to all employers with 15 or more employees within Columbus. Employers that violate the ordinance could face civil fines of up to $5,000.
Covered employers should ensure that
Columbus, Ohio’s Salary History Ban Goes Live on March 1, 2024: Are You Ready?
Employers in Columbus, Ohio, will be prohibited from asking job applicants about their salary histories under a city ordinance that takes effect on March 1, 2024.