4125.01 Definitions. - Ohio Statutes

4125.01 Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(A) “Client employer” means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into a professional employer organization agreement and is assigned shared employees by the professional employer organization.

(B) “Coemploy” means the sharing of the responsibilities and liabilities of being an employer.

(C) “Professional employer organization” means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into an agreement with one or more client employers for the purpose of coemploying all or part of the client employer’s workforce at the client employer’s work site.

(D) “Professional employer organization agreement” means a written contract to coemploy employees between a professional employer organization and a client employer with a duration of not less than twelve months in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.

(E) “Shared employee” means an individual intended to be assigned to a client employer on a permanent basis, not as a temporary supplement to the client employer’s workforce, who is coemployed by a professional employer organization and a client employer pursuant to a professional employer organization agreement.

(F) “Trade secret” has the same meaning as in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 11-05-2004