Title III, PUBLIC SERVICES AND REGULATION (Ch. 80 - 122C)

1. a. The state hourly wage shall be at least $6.20 as of April 1, 2007, and $7.25 as of January 1, 2008. b. Every employer, as defined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended to January 1, 2007, shall pay to each of the employer’s employees, as defined in the…

As used in this chapter : 1. “Director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. 2. “Employee” means a natural person who is employed in this state for wages paid on an hourly basis by an employer. An employee does not include a person engaged …

If more than ten percent of an employer’s employees are non-English speaking and speak the same non-English language, the employer shall provide all of the following: 1. a. An interpreter available at the work site for each shift during which non-English speaking employees are em…

1. An employer or a representative of an employer who actively recruits non-English speaking residents of other states more than five hundred miles from the place of employment, for employment as employees for wages paid on an hourly basis in this state, must have on file, a copy…

1. An employer who violates section 91E.3 is subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars. 2. A corporate officer of an employer who, through repeated violation of section 91E.3 , demonstrates a pattern of abusive recruitment practices commits a serious misdemeanor. 3…

1. The director shall adopt rules to implement and enforce this chapter and shall provide further exemptions from the provisions of this chapter where reasonable. 2. In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter , the director or the director’s representative, upon presentin…

Compliance with the minimum standards required in this chapter shall not be subject to or considered in collective bargaining. 90 Acts, ch 1134, §7

For purposes of this chapter , “director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1850, 2043 Former section 92.1 repealed by 2023 Acts, ch 92, §22

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit: 1. A child from working in or around any home before or after school hours or during vacation periods, provided such work is not related to or part of the business, trade, or profession of the employer. 2. A child from worki…

1. No parent, guardian, or other person, having under the parent’s, guardian’s, or other person’s control any person under eighteen years of age, shall negligently permit said person to work or be employed in violation of the provisions of this chapter . 2. No person, firm, or co…

1. Any person who furnishes or sells to any minor child any article of any description which the person knows or should have known the minor intends to sell in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor. 2. A person determined to be a sex…

1. The director may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to more specifically define the work activities and equipment permitted or prohibited in this chapter and to issue general and special orders prohibiting or allowing the employment of persons under eighteen years of age in a…

1. The director shall enforce this chapter . An employer who violates this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars for each violation. The director may waive or reduce a civil penalty based on evide…

Anyone under the age of eighteen and subject to this chapter employed in the work activities of selling or delivering the product or service of another and who is designated in such capacity as an independent contractor shall be provided participation, if the person under the age…

1. For purposes of this section , unless the context otherwise requires: a. “Business” means any city, county, or township, including but not limited to a fire department or law enforcement office or department, public university, municipal university, community college, technica…

No person under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity. [SS15, §2477-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1526; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §92.1; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §92.3 ] 2017 Acts, ch 29, §31 ; 2023 Acts, ch 92, …

No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation in any work activity during regular school hours, except the following work activities: 1. Those persons legally out of school, if such status is verified by the submission of…

Persons fourteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in the following work activities: 1. Retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments. 2. Office and clerical work, including operation of office machines. 3. Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work…

1. Persons fourteen and fifteen years of age shall not be employed in: a. Any manufacturing work activity. b. Any mining work activity. c. Processing work activities, except in a retail, food service, or gasoline service establishment in those specific work activities expressly p…

1. Persons fifteen years of age may be employed or permitted to work in any of the work activities provided in section 92.5 in addition to the following work activities: a. Loading and unloading non-power-driven equipment weighing up to thirty pounds into motor vehicles. b. Loadi…

A person under sixteen years of age shall not be employed with or without compensation, except as provided in sections 92.5 and 92.6A , before the hour of 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m., except during the period from June 1 through Labor Day when the hours may be extended to 11:00 …

A person who is sixteen or seventeen years of age may work the same hours as a person who is eighteen years of age. 2023 Acts, ch 92, §7

No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work with or without compensation at any of the following work activities or business establishments: 1. Work activities in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles co…

1. The director of the department of workforce development or department of education may grant an exception from any provision of section 92.7 or 92.8 for minors sixteen to seventeen years of age participating in work-based learning or a school or employer-administered, work-rel…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Governmental entity” means the same as defined in section 96.1A . 2. “Indian tribe” means the same as defined in section 96.1A . 3. a. “Marketplace contractor” means a person or organization, including an indivi…

1. A marketplace contractor shall be treated as an independent contractor, and not an employee of a marketplace platform, for all purposes under state or local law, including but not limited to chapters 87 and 96 , if the following conditions are met: a. The marketplace contracto…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “COVID-19” means the same as defined in section 686D.2 . 2. “Employee” means an individual who is employed in this state for wages by an employer. “Employee” includes an applicant for employment. 3. “Employer” me…

An employer that requires an employee to receive a COVID-19 vaccine shall waive the requirement if the employee, or, if the employee is a minor, the employee’s parent or legal guardian, requests a waiver and submits either of the following to the employer: 1. A statement that rec…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Iowa Employment Security Law” . [C39, § 1551.07; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §96.1 ]

1. Duties and powers of director. It shall be the duty of the director to administer this chapter ; and the director shall have power and authority to adopt, amend, or rescind pursuant to chapter 17A such rules, to employ such persons, make such expenditures, require such reports…

1. Duties of department. The department shall establish and maintain free public employment services accessible to all Iowans for the purposes of this chapter , and for the purpose of performing the duties required by federal and state laws relating to employment and training inc…

1. Special fund. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the “Employment Security Administration Fund” . All moneys which are deposited or paid into this fund are hereby appropriated and made available to the department. All moneys in this fund…

1. Interest. Any employer who fails to pay any contribution and fails to pay the contribution at the time required by this chapter and the rules of the department, shall pay to the department in addition to the contribution, interest on the contribution at the rate of one percent…

1. Waiver of rights void. Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute the individual’s rights to benefits or any other rights under this chapter shall be void. Any agreement by any individual in the employ of any person or concern to pay all or any portion of an …

1. Penalties. An individual who makes a false statement or representation knowing it to be false or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, to obtain or increase any benefit or other payment under this chapter , either for the individual or for any other individual, is guilt…

1. Legal services. In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter , the department and the state may be represented by any qualified attorney who is a regular salaried employee of the department and is designated by it for this purpose or, at the department’s reque…

Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent that moneys are available therefor to the credit of the unemployment compensation fund. The state; the department; the department of inspections, appeal…

As used in this chapter , unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. “Appeal board” means the employment appeal board created under section 10A.601 . 2. “Average annual taxable payroll” means the average of the total amount of taxable wages paid by an employer for insured …

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires, “book” , “list” , “record” , or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1 . 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1 C2001…

As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter , the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment negatively impacts the health, morals, and welfare of the people of Iowa. These undesirable consequences can be…

1. The department is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states, or a contiguous country with which the United States has an agreement with respect to unemployment compensation or the federal government whereby potential rights to b…

If at any time Tit. IX of the Social Security Act, as amended , shall be amended or repealed by Congress or held unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States, with the result that no portion of the contributions required under this chapter may be credited against th…

1. The department shall exclude three or more calendar quarters from an individual’s base period, as defined in section 96.1A, subsection 3 , if the individual received workers’ compensation benefits for temporary total disability or during a healing period under section 85.33 , …

Whenever an employee is separated from employment for the purpose of joining the armed forces of the United States, the employee shall notify the employer in writing of the employee’s acceptance and date of reporting for service and the employer shall, within fifteen days after s…

The department may acquire for and in the name of the state of Iowa by purchase, or by rental purchase agreement, such lands and buildings upon such terms and conditions as may entitle this state to grants or credits of funds under the Social Security Act or the Wagner-Peyser Act…

The department is authorized to accept, receive, and receipt for all moneys received from the United States for the payments authorized by section 96.25 , this section , section 96.27 , and section 96.28 for lands and buildings and to comply with any rules made under the Social S…