Although the timetable allowing businesses to reopen is different in every state, most businesses are starting to plan for the inevitable day when employees will be allowed to return to the workplace and resume business operations at least in some form. In Iowa, the Governor’s April 27 proclamation loosened restrictions in 77 Iowa counties. Although
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The Sweeping Reforms to Iowa’s Collective Bargaining Law May Be Short-Lived
By Patrick Smith on
Posted in Iowa Appellate Courts, Labor
There is reason to be concerned the AFSCME lawsuit challenging the recent collective bargaining amendments will undermine the legislature’s effort to reform public sector collective bargaining. As discussed in our previous post on the new law, AFSCME Council 61, the state’s largest public employee union, filed a lawsuit to invalidate the new law on February…