Major changes in Senate Bill 5:

• Limits collective bargaining to wages, hours and terms of employment and personal safety equipment.

• Prohibits strikes and requires employers to dock workers pay: two days for each day on strike; employees can be fired or disciplined for condoning a strike.

• Bars collective bargaining on health care, privatization of government work, minimum staffing rules and other items.

• Eliminates salary schedules and automatic step increases and requires merit pay for most public employees. Longevity pay is eliminated. Pay for non-union workers cannot be tied to compensation negotiated in a union contract.

• Requires workers to pay at least 15 percent of their health care costs and all of their pension contribution.

• Requires school districts to adopt paid leave policies that limit sick leave to no more than 10 days; eliminates the 15 days sick leave now required by law; abolishes continuing contracts for teachers.

• Limits the accrual of leave time to 12 paid holidays and three personal days per year and six weeks of vacation prior to 20-years service and caps vacation leave at 7.7 hours per biweekly pay period for workers with 19 or more years on the job and reduces sick leave accrual to two weeks a year down from three weeks, for most local government workers.

• Retiring workers can be paid for up to 1,000 hours of unused sick leave and at half of their hourly pay rate.

• Allows the government legislative body to impose management’s last offer as a three-year contract if the two sides reach impasse.

• Removes seniority as the sole factor in deciding layoffs.

• Bars union contracts that stipulate student to teacher ratios, layoff restrictions, mandate minimum staffing levels, restrict management’s ability to assign workloads, or otherwise impair management’s rights.

• Management has the right to determine: hiring, firing, transferring, promotion, discipline and layoff of employees, shift, hours and work assignments of employees, and where and what work is done by whom.

• Requires teacher pay to be based on performance, qualifications, student test scores and annual evaluations.

• Allows jurisdictions in fiscal emergency or fiscal watch to terminate or change union contracts.

• Requires jurisdictions to publicly disclose all the pay and benefits prescribed in union contracts, including stipends for clothing, dry cleaning and insurance coverage.

Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission, final analysis of Senate Bill 5.