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The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was introduced by Representative Tom Foley (D-WA) to provide for government-wide ethics reform. Improvements to the 1978 act included civil penalties for appointees violating post-service employment regulations, and widening the net to include all employees of the Executive Department who hold a commission from the ...
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
The Iowa Civil Rights Commission also is the state agency for Iowa that participates in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP). [15] Under this program, the Commission investigates and enforces complaints of housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act .
The founder of a nonprofit that opposes book removals in Iowa has filed an ethics complaint against a state representative alleging defamation.
A fair-chance employer or second-chance employer is an employer that does not automatically disqualify all prospective job applicants who have prior involvement in the criminal justice system. [1] Instead, the hiring process includes an evaluation of the individual. [ 2 ]
This category includes non-governmental groups in the United States whose stated mission includes monitoring branches of the state or federal governments for fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, mismanagement, illegal activity, campaign donor influence, abuse of authority, miscarriage of justice, and so forth. Groups whose primary mission is one of ...
Iowa House lawmakers have approved a plan to overhaul the state's mental health and disability service systems, sending one of Gov. Kim Reynolds' priority pieces of legislation to the Senate.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate and Attorney General Brenna Bird are suing the federal government for information they say it declined to give them before the Nov. 5 election that would have ...