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Unemployment Benefits
Ohio employees who have been terminated from employment should not delay in filing a timely claim for Ohio Unemployment Benefits.

Ohio employers will often challenge an employee's application for benefits, and sometimes even misinform terminated employees as to their eligibility for benefits during the course of the termination. For example, employers who represent to a severed employee that she or he will not receive unemployment benefits because of the articulated reason for termination are likely misinforming the employee. 

Whether a severed employee is eligible for unemployment benefits is not the employer's decision. Rather, Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services has an application process in place to assess eligibility, and is the only entity authorized to make any such determination.

If your employer has challenged your application for benefits and you have received a determination or redetermination denying your application for unemployment benefits, you should be certain to appeal the adverse decision within the time allowed. The deadline and method for filing an appeal will usually be displayed on the notice that you receive from the department denying your application.

In many cases, Ohio employees are required to appear at a hearing to determine whether they are eligible for unemployment benefits. Any Ohio worker required to appear at an Ohio unemployment hearing has a right to representation at the hearing and should contact an employment attorney without delay.  

Ohio workers should be aware that of all of the hearing participants, typically the employer's representative and currently employed decision-makers and witnesses, only the individual employee has an interest in a decision granting their unemployment benefit application. Ohio workers facing an unemployment benefits hearing should contact an Ohio unemployment benefits attorney.


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Tod is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a member of the Cincinnati and Toledo Bar Associations, the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, the Cincinnati Employment Lawyers Association, and is a 2014 graduate of the Trial Lawyers College.

The information on these webpages neither constitutes legal advice nor forms an attorney/client relationship.  It is provided solely to inform you of the legal services that Tod J. Thompson can provide.  Please call to schedule a free consultation regarding your particular matter.

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