Labor Law Requirements

• IOSH (Required)
• Unemployment Insurance (Required)
• Minimum Wage (Required)
• Equal Opportunity is the Law (Required)

• Family and Medical Leave (Required)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
• USERRA (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
• Polygraph Protection Test (Required)
• NLRA (Required)

Recent Changes

EEO - May 2011

There was a non-substantive change. The quote at the bottom of the notice was changed from "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" to the Martin Luther King, Jr, quote, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Iowa has also added pregnancy as a protected class. This is a substantive change.

Minimum Wage - Unemployment Insurance - April 2009

• Minimum Wage – Non-substantive formatting changes.
• Unemployment Insurance - Removed the city of Vinton from the bottom of the notice.

Unemployment Insurance - Minimum Wage - OSHA - January 2009

• Unemployment Insurance - Non-substantive formatting changes to the Unemployment Insurance notice.
• Minimum Wage - The state of Iowa has release a new Minimum Wage Notice. The new notice does not reflect an increase to the hourly minimum wage, however, it does specify that employers may pay an initial employment rate of $6.35 per hour for the first 90 calendar days of employment. The notice also amends the Tip Credit section, specifying that the employer’s share for tipped employees who customarily and regularly receive more than $30.00 a month in tips must be at least $4.35 an hour. Previously, employees could claim 40% of the applicable minimum wage.
• OSHA - The state of Iowa has produced a completely redesigned OSHA notice.
This was a Substantive change