Ohio would draw a narrower employee line for some health care shifts booked through platforms, saying a worker is not the employee of a health care worker platform or a health care facility for specified laws in certain circumstances. For nurses, aides and other workers picking up shifts this way, the label can change overtime, legal responsibility and how much control a platform or facility can exert over the job.
The carveouts that stay in place
This is not a wholesale rewrite of labor law. The measure amends Ohio code sections including 4121.01 and 4113.87, which ties the status change to specific labor rules rather than every possible employment question. The same language says “employ” and “employee” do not include a person acting as a volunteer.
It also excludes service done as part of an unemployment work-relief or work-training program that is assisted or financed by a federal, state, local or tribal government or agency. In other words, the bill narrows one lane of platform-booked health care work while leaving those other categories outside the definition.
The sponsor and the recorded votes
The proposal comes from Sen. Susan Manchester, a Republican from Ohio Senate District 12. Available vote records show the bill advanced without recorded no votes.
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