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March 6, 2023 Last Edit: June 5, 2025
NFIB Sends 12-Page Small Business Agenda to Ohio Legislators
- Improve workforce development and education by:
- Continuing TechCred as a way for employers to receive reimbursement for upskilling current and prospective employees.
- Reducing or eliminating obstacles to state licensure. “One in five jobs in Ohio requires the state’s permission to practice,” Ferruso said. “We believe it’s time the General Assembly review which jobs require a license and make it easier, not harder, for people to work.”
- Making the Department of Education & Workforce a cabinet-level agency to ensure accountability on education and workforce training.
- Shoring up Ohio’s insolvent unemployment system by:
- Eliminating the dependency provision.
- Freezing maximum benefit amounts until the fund is better funded.
- Reducing eligibility from 26 weeks to 20. “These reforms will encourage individuals to return to work sooner to help address workforce needs while ensuring necessary benefits remain available,” Ferruso said.
- Evaluate third-party lawsuit financing. “Lending money to plaintiffs so they can prolong a lawsuit is a perversion of Ohio’s justice system,” Ferruso said. Rather than helping injured parties recover their losses, the loans discourage plaintiffs from settling out of court, even when they’re unlikely to win at trial.
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