filed a claim or instituted, pursued or testified in any proceedings under the workers’ compensation act for an injury or occupational disease which occurred in the course of and arising out of his employment with that employer. Under section 4123.90, an employer may not discharge an employee for filing a workers’ compensation claim for an injury that occurred during the course of his employment with that employer. Ohio Rev.Code § 4123.90. Section 4123.90 does not, however, preclude employers from terminating employees for any lawful reason, including inability to do their jobs or absenteeism due to their workplace injury. White v. Mt. Carmel Med. Ctr., 150 Ohio App.3d 316, 780 N.E.2d 1054 (2002); cf. Coolidge v. Riverdale Local Sch. Dist., 100 Ohio St.3d 141, 797 N.E.2d 61 (Ohio 2003) (<HOLDING>). When there is no direct evidence showing that
holding that claimant may simultaneously receive unemployment benefits and workers compensation for temporary partial disability where statute only precludes receipt of workers compensation for temporary total or permanent total disability if claimant is receiving unemployment benefits holding that disability pension benefits could be offset against both temporary and total permanent disability compensation benefits holding that employees retaliatory discharge based on employees election to public office did not violate public policy holding that a totally disabled claimant whose preexisting osteoarthritis was temporarily aggravated by her employment was entitled to temporary total disability benefits but not permanent total disability benefits because there was no causal connection between the temporary aggravation and the permanent disability holding that employers who fire employees receiving temporary total disability for absenteeism or inability to work may violate ohio public policy failing to hold such conduct violates  412390