On January 27, the Iowa House passed HF 681, known as the "Iowa Worker Adjustment 
Retraining and Notification Act".
There is already a Federal WARN Act, which requires most employers with 100 or more employees to provide at least 60 days notice to their employees of a mass layoff or plant shutdown. Failure to file
On January 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a decision that is likely to expand the frontiers of sex discrimination litigation in this circuit (which covers Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota). In Lewis v. Heartland Inns of America, a female plaintiff who had masculine
A recent study by University of Iowa economist John Solow found little evidence of racial discrimination in head coach hiring by National Football League Teams. In 2003, the NFL instituted the "Rooney Rule" to try and increase the number of racial minorities who served as head coaches. The rule required teams to interview
Several commentators have identified the proliferation of social networking as one of most important new developments/challenges/obstacles that employers faced in 2009, and will 
continue to deal with in the foreseeable future.
Despite all the discussion in blogs and other places about this phenomenon, for those who do not spend lots of time in this arena, there is not