Ford Motor Co. v. Ohio Bureau of Employment Services

This court has recognized that an employee who, pursuant to a labor-management agreement, accepts termination in lieu of a reassignment or involuntary layoff is entitled to unemployment compensation benefits. Bockover v. Ludlow Corp. (1986), 23 Ohio St. 3d 190, 23 OBR 352, 492 N.E. 2d 149. This case asks us to decide whether an employee is entitled to unemployment benefits where the employer, due to lack of work for its employees, offers a plan of voluntary termination and an employee, who because of seniority would not have been laid off or reassigned, consents to termination under the terms…