Emergency Responder Leave Handbook Statement: Ohio

Employees who serve as volunteer firefighters or volunteer providers of emergency medical services may arrive late to work or be absent from work in order to respond to an emergency occurring prior to the employee's reporting time. For purposes of this policy, responding to an emergency includes going to, attending to, or coming from a fire, hazardous or toxic materials spill and cleanup, medical emergency or other situation that poses an imminent threat of loss of life or property to which the fire department or provider of emergency medical services has been or later could be dispatched.

Time off under this policy will be without pay, except