Legal posters are a great way to inform your employees of their rights and responsibilities at the office or work site. Ohio state law and federal law require you to keep your employees up to date with new legal policies they are subject to. Commercially bought posters are similar to classroom fact sheets; they are colorful bullet point format publications that summarize labor law in simple easy to understand points. It may be expensive and counterintuitive to hand out photocopies of the actual statutes of labor law to your employees, furthermore the letter of the law is often wordy and difficult to understand from laymen’s eyes. Legal posters explain laws in a simple easy to understand form.
Every business is required to keep their employees up to date of their rights and obligations, these come in two different forms Ohio state law and federal law. There are posters that display them separately on different publications or if you prefer a smaller poster there are also posters that display both state and federal law. Having both separate posters has the advantage of having larger font since there will be more space for the printed material, the larger font is easier to read however takes up more room. The single combined poster is ideal for smaller businesses where there is less space in the employee break room where it is seen by all employees.
An important point with labor law is the fact that it continually changes, every year policies may be added or changed so it’s important to keep up to date with the most current laws. Some publishers have a program where when you can purchase a whole year worth of updates this adds to the total cost of the poster however it comes with the assurance that you will be kept up to date to the newest policies when they are put in motion. The company will usually email the subscriber a printable file that can be amended to the poster as necessary.
An Ohio state labor law poster should include the following policies; no smoking, unemployment compensation, discrimination, occupational safety and health protection, child labor laws, workers compensation, and Ohio state minimum wage. Federal labor law posters include; federal minimum wage, employee polygraph protection act, OSHA, EEOC, USERRA, MFLA, anti discrimination notice, withholding status, and payday information.
A combination poster would cover both sets of information and also do away with redundancy between the two sheets since some of the policies overlap each other, it would probably be best to buy a combination poster which would only show pertinent information. For instance, Ohio state minimum wage is higher than federal minimum wage, therefore the information of federal minimum wage is rather irrelevant to your employees.
Keep your business safe and moving legally by keeping your employees informed, legal turmoil can undermine a business, labor law posters are the best way to keep your employees up to date with legal policies; a good investment to avoid expensive and stressful lawsuits.
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