91E.2  Non-English speaking employees--employer obligations.

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.  An interpreter available at the work site for each shift during which non-English speaking employees are employed.

If a Spanish-speaking interpreter is needed, the employer shall select an interpreter from a list of interpreters developed by the department of workforce development, drawn from the commission of Latino affairs' statewide list of interpreters qualified to serve Iowa courts and administrative agencies.

2.  A person employed by the employer whose primary responsibility is to serve as a referral agent to community services.

Section History: Recent form

  90 Acts, ch 1134, §3; 96 Acts, ch 1186, § 23


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