Ohio Chamber of Commerce

The groups say "predictability and stability" are important with business-related cases that are coming before the court.

The Republican-backed law passed along party lines in the House and Senate, and was signed by Gov. Mike DeWine this week.

Some tech companies that have been setting up shop in Ohio say they want to be green, and that includes using electric vehicle fleets. One state lawmaker has a bill that he says would encourage more electric vehicle production and sales in Ohio.

The Ohio House voted mostly along party lines to approve a Republican bill on vaccine mandates, vaccine exemptions and vaccine passports, after previous votes on a similar bill stalled. And how the bill got to the floor and its future beyond it are raising questions.

The president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce said he has a proposal to change the way unemployment benefits are paid.

Members of an Ohio House committee briefly returned from summer break Tuesday to hear public comment on a bill to ban vaccine mandates.

Attempts to change Ohio law to require employers to pay women and men equally have been unsuccessful. Those bills have been mostly supported by Democrats who, for the past two decades, have been in the minority. Now there’s a new effort underway and lawmakers are taking a different approach.

A Franklin County judge is expected to rule in the coming days on a lawsuit that seeks to restore the $300 weekly checks that the federal government was providing to unemployed people through September. Ohio became one of 26 states that ended the program last month.

Ohio’s unemployment rate is 5%, just slightly higher than it was before the double-digit spike from the pandemic last year. Some businesses are actively advertising they’ll pay well above Ohio’s minimum wage of $8.80, along with signing bonuses. So why aren’t they finding workers? The answer may surprise you.

Representative Steve Stivers is resigning in less than a month. In a series of tweets, Stivers said he is leaving to head the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.