Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recently signed the Pay Stub Protection Act, which will become effective on April 9, 2025. The law requires employers to provide certain information to their employees on the employer’s regular paydays. Specifically, every employer must provide “a written or electronic statement or access to a statement of the employee’s earnings and deductions for each pay period.” The statement must include all of the following:
(1) The employee’s name;
(2) The employee’s address;
(3) The employer’s name;
(4) The total gross wages earned by the employee during the pay period;
(5) The total net wages paid to the employee for the pay period;
(6) A listing of the amount and purpose of each addition to or deduction from the wages paid to the employee during the pay period;
(7) The date the employee was paid and the pay period covered by that payment;
(8) For an employee who is paid on an hourly basis, all of the following information:
(a) The total number of hours the employee worked in that pay period;
(b) The hourly wage rate at which the employee was paid;
(c) The employee’s hours worked in excess of forty hours in one workweek.
Employees who do not receive such a statement may request it from their employer, who must then provide the employee with the statement no later than ten days after receiving the request. If the employee does not receive the statement within ten days, they may submit a report of this violation to the director of commerce. If the director of commerce determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe a violation exists, they will issue a written notice to the employer, who must immediately post the notice in a conspicuous place on their premises for ten days.
You can read the law here: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4113.14.
Critchfield attorneys are available to answer questions about your obligations related to this legislation.
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