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Ford Motor Co. prevailed in its challenge to the Industrial Commission's determination. The court held that the claimant's minimal activities for his own lawn care company (signing checks, fueling, and driving a riding mower) did not constitute sufficient work to preclude temporary total disability benefits from his primary employer.
Workers' compensation - Determination of whether claimant's activities for his own lawn care company constitute work thus precluding him from receiving temporary total disability compensation from his primary employer - Claimant's activities consisted of signing four workers' checks and fueling and driving riding lawnmower onto a truck - Benefits not terminated when activities are truly minimal and only indirectly related to generating income.
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Mandamus—Labor relations—Public employees—R.C. Ch. 4117—State Employment Relations Board abused its discretion in dismissing public employee's unfair-labor-practice charge against employer because employer did not have authority to determine that employee's notice to arbitrate was untimely under collective-bargaining agreement—Board abused its discretion when it dismissed public employee's unfair-labor-practice charge against union without providing basic rationale for dismissal—Board did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed public employee's additional unfair-labor-practice charge against union, because union acted in accordance with public employee's waiver of union representation—Court of appeals' judgment granting writ of mandamus affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Workers' compensation—Temporary-total-disability compensation—R.C. 4123.56—Employee who had already been terminated for violation of employment policies before his shoulder surgery was not "unable to work" as "direct result of an impairment arising from an injury or occupational disease" under plain language of R.C. 4123.56(F) and thus was not entitled to receive temporary-total-disability compensation—Court of appeals' judgment reversed and writ granted.
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