Ohio Justices Pass on Look at Shortened Time to Sue for Job Bias

Ohio employers may continue to shorten the time workers have to sue for job discrimination under state law if the employee agrees, after the Ohio Supreme Court declined to review a case arguing that allowing them to do so violates Ohio public policy against sexual harassment and other sex bias.

The state justices’ decision not to accept for review Amanda Fayak’s suit against University Hospitals Health Systems Inc. and eight individual defendants under the Ohio Civil Rights Act drew a sharp rebuke from one of the court’s seven judges.

Fayak’s appeal of a lower court’s enforcement of the six-month statute ...