Ohio Code 4123.345 – [Former Section 3 of S.B. 166, 134th General Assembly, amended and codified as R.C. 4123.345 by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly] Work-based learning program
(A) The employers providing work-based learning program is created.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4123.345
- Employer: means :
(a) The state, including state hospitals, each county, municipal corporation, township, school district, and hospital owned by a political subdivision or subdivisions other than the state;
(b) Every person, firm, professional employer organization, alternate employer organization, and private corporation, including any public service corporation, that (i) has in service one or more employees or shared employees regularly in the same business or in or about the same establishment under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or (ii) is bound by any such contract of hire or by any other written contract, to pay into the insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- Injury: includes any injury, whether caused by external accidental means or accidental in character and result, received in the course of, and arising out of, the injured employee's employment. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- Occupational disease: means a disease contracted in the course of employment, which by its causes and the characteristics of its manifestation or the condition of the employment results in a hazard which distinguishes the employment in character from employment generally, and the employment creates a risk of contracting the disease in greater degree and in a different manner from the public in general. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors, shall adopt a rule that prohibits the administrator from charging any amount with respect to a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapters 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to an employer‘s experience if both of the following apply:
(1) The employer provides work-based learning experiences for students enrolled in a career-technical education program approved under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code.
(2) The claim is based on a student’s injury, occupational disease, or death sustained in the course of and arising out of the student’s participation in the employer’s work-based learning experience.
(B) Pursuant to section 4109.06 of the Revised Code, the requirements of Chapter 4109 of the Revised Code do not apply to a student participating in a work-based learning experience described in division (A)(1) of this section.
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