Ohio’s New Overtime Law

Posted Jul 05, 2022

In March of this year, Governor DeWine signed into law Senate Bill 47, which seeks to clarify Ohio’s overtime pay provisions. The law also expressly adopts the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) “Portal to Portal” Act (PPA) exemptions from paying overtime. Specifically, the new law clarifies and codifies, like the FLSA and the interpretations that have previously been annunciated in Ohio courts, that employers are not obligated to pay overtime compensation to employees under the following circumstances: