The Iowa Civil Rights Commission has updated its "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster. According to the Commission, pregnancy has been added as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Also, the law will now apply to employees of private employers, state and local governments, and public and private educational institutions with four or more employees. The...

Iowa has enacted a state mini-WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act, requiring businesses with 25 or more full-time employees to give 30 days advance warning of mass layoffs or company closings. The law goes into effect July 1, 2010. The federal WARN Act affects only those employers with 100 or more workers within a 75-mile radius but requires 60 days' advance notice....

The state of Iowa has released a new OSHA panel entitled "Job Safety and Health--It's The Law." The new poster has been updated with a new look, and old information was removed, including the sections "Right-To-Know," "Issues Not Covered" and information regarding penalty amounts for non-compliance. Also, the definition of and references to Chapter 88 were...