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Glad to see my friend Mark Landa blogging over on the Iowa Law Blog. Mark has an important reminder that the time for filing a civil rights complaint under Iowa law will be extended from 180 days to 300 days in order to conform to the federal timeline.
Iowa employment lawyer Victoria Herring points out on…
This past January I posted on an Iowa immigration bill that targeted employers. The bill sparked significant debate but was not passed.
Now in the wake of the raid at the AgriProcessors slaughterhouse and packing plant in Postville, Iowa, Iowa’s legislative leaders are renewing promises to target employers.
This time legislative leaders will…
Under a new Iowa immigration bill, employers that repeatedly employ illegal aliens would face civil penalties of up to $10,000 and up to a year in jail under legislation being proposed in the legislature. Employers would be exempt from penalties if they seek verification of a worker’s citizenship status through the Department of Homeland Security’s…
I’ve said it before (and also here) but it bears repeating that wage and hour class actions are booming. Just this past week Iowa’s Casey’s General Stores was hit with a wage and hour lawsuit with allegedly more than $5 million at stake. If that isn’t enough to convince you to examine whether your company…
Attorney Liz Overton has an excellent post on the need to carefully prepare job descriptions for small businesses over on Sullivan & Ward’s Iowa Law Blog.
I encourage you to check it out.
Mark Toth, Chief Legal Officer of Manpower, has a terrific employment law blog post any small business owner should read. Toth’s blog is creative and fun and his advice is right on the mark. Follow his greatest hits and you are much more likely to stay out of trouble with your employees.
I particularly agree…