Ohio Code 4141.42 – Reciprocal agreements to determining liability for payment of employer contributions
( A) As used in this section, “critical infrastructure,” “disaster response period,” “disaster work,” and ” qualifying employee” have the same meanings as in section 5703.94 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4141.42
- Benefit rights: means the weekly benefit amount and the maximum benefit amount that may become payable to an individual within the individual's benefit year as determined by the director. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Benefits: means money payments payable to an individual who has established benefit rights, as provided in this chapter, for loss of remuneration due to the individual's unemployment. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Contributions: means the money payments to the state unemployment compensation fund required of employers by section 4141. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Employer: means the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, Indian tribes, and any individual or type of organization including any partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or the successor thereof, or the legal representative of a deceased person who subsequent to December 31, 1971, or in the case of political subdivisions or their instrumentalities, subsequent to December 31, 1973:
(a) Had in employment at least one individual, or in the case of a nonprofit organization, subsequent to December 31, 1973, had not less than four individuals in employment for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, in either the current or the preceding calendar year whether or not the same individual was in employment in each such day; or
(b) Except for a nonprofit organization, had paid for service in employment wages of fifteen hundred dollars or more in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year; or
(c) Had paid, subsequent to December 31, 1977, for employment in domestic service in a local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, cash remuneration of one thousand dollars or more in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year, or had paid subsequent to December 31, 1977, for employment in domestic service in a private home cash remuneration of one thousand dollars in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year:
(i) For the purposes of divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section, there shall not be taken into account any wages paid to, or employment of, an individual performing domestic service as described in this division. See Ohio Code 4141.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- United States: includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Ohio Code 4141.01
(B ) The director of job and family services may enter into reciprocal agreements with departments charged with the administration of the unemployment compensation law of any other state or the United States or Canada for the purpose of determining and placing the liability of an employer for the payment of contributions for services rendered within this state or such other jurisdiction, or both, and to provide that the jurisdiction authorized to collect the contributions shall determine the benefit rights which may arise in connection with such services and assume the liability for the payment of the benefits.
( C) An agreement described in division (B) of this section shall provide that an employer is not liable for disaster work performed in this state during a disaster response period by either of the following:
(1) A qualifying employee described in division (A)(14)(a) of section 5703.94 of the Revised Code, when the disaster work is performed pursuant to a qualifying solicitation received by the employee’s employer;
(2) A qualifying employee described in division (A)(14)(b) of section 5703.94 of the Revised Code, when the disaster work is performed on critical infrastructure owned or used by the employee’s employer.