Greeley v. Miami Valley Maintenance Contractors, Inc.

The issue before us is whether a violation of R.C. 3113.213 (D) gives rise to a civil cause of action for damages when an at-will employment relationship is terminated by an employer solely because of a court-ordered child support wage assignment of the employee’s wages.

As a threshold matter, it is clear that we must, as a matter of law, accept all the allegations of appellant’s complaint to be true. Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co. (1988), 40 Ohio St. 3d 190, 192, 532 N.E. 2d 753, 756. Fur*230ther, in O’Brien v. University Community Tenants Union (1975), 42 Ohio St. 2d 242, 71 O.O. 2d 223, 327 N.E.…