Ohio has passed the Pay Stub Protection Act, requiring employers to provide employees with a written or electronic statement or access to a statement of the employee’s earnings and deductions for each pay period on the employer’s regular paydays.
All of the following information must be included in the statement:
- The employee’s name;
- The employee’s address;
- The employer’s name;
- The total gross wages earned by the employee during the pay period;
- The total net wages paid to the employee for the pay period;
- A listing of the amount and purpose of each addition to or deduction from the wages paid to the employee during the pay period;
- The date the employee was paid and the pay period covered by that payment;
- For an employee who is paid on an hourly basis, all of the following information: (a) The total number of hours the employee worked in that pay period; (b) The hourly wage rate at which the employee was paid; (c) The employee’s hours worked in excess of forty hours in one workweek.
The Act takes effect on April 9, 2025.