4121.77 Powers of workers' compensation council. - Ohio Statutes

4121.77 Powers of workers' compensation council.

The workers’ compensation council shall appoint a director to manage and direct the duties of the staff of the council. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the council. The director shall be a person who has had training and experience in areas related to the duties of the council.

The council may authorize the director to employ professional, technical, and clerical staff as necessary, and employ or hire on a consulting basis persons to provide actuarial, legal, investment, or other technical services required for the performance of the council’s duties. All employees of the council are in the unclassified civil service as described in section 124.11 of the Revised Code and the staff serve at the pleasure of the director. For purposes of sections 718.04 and 4117.01 of the Revised Code, employees of the council shall be considered employees of the general assembly.

The council shall fix the compensation of the director . The director shall fix the compensation of all other employees of the council and, notwithstanding section 124.18 of the Revised Code, shall adopt policies relating to payment for overtime, granting of compensatory time off, utilizing flexible hours, and working on holidays and compensation for holiday work.

The council may do any of the following:

(A) Require the members of the industrial commission, bureau of workers’ compensation board of directors, workers’ compensation audit committee, workers’ compensation actuarial committee, and workers’ compensation investment committee, the administrator of workers’ compensation, and employees of the industrial commission and the bureau of workers’ compensation, and any agency or official of this state or its political subdivisions to provide the council with any information necessary to carry out its duties;

(B) Administer oaths and hold public hearings at times and places within the state as necessary to accomplish the purposes of sections 4121.75 to 4121.79 of the Revised Code;

(C) Establish regular reporting requirements for any report that the chairperson of the industrial commission, chairperson of the board, members of the committees specified in division (A) of this section, and the administrator are required to submit to the council;

(D) Request that the auditor of state perform or contract for the performance of a financial or special audit of the bureau;

(E) Request that the auditor of state perform or contract for the performance of a special or fiduciary audit of the workers’ compensation system.

Effective Date: 2007 HB100 09-10-2007; 2008 HB79 01-06-2009