IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa is seeking help to ensure compliance with other states’ labor and payroll laws and practices for employees working outside Iowa, as the campus approves more remote-work arrangements amid COVID-propelled changes.
Although the number of UI employees working out of state remains small — about 110 out of a full-time equivalent of more than 24,600 — the university is looking to hire a company to provide a “multistate compliance solution for labor and employment law practices.”
“The university has never contracted with a vendor for these services in the past,” UI Chief Human Resources Officer and Associate Vice President Cheryl Reardon said via email. “However, the university is seeking a vendor to help navigate payroll and labor laws unique to each state, to review how various situations apply to the University of Iowa and to help mitigate any risks.”
All three of Iowa’s public universities allowed, enabled and — in many cases — instructed employees to work remotely when the pandemic first began and continued to surge through 2020. But in May 2021, the Iowa Board of Regents lifted its state of emergency and instructed the UI, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa to return faculty and staff to campus “to the extent their traditional (pre-pandemic) employment responsibilities require.”
In that May directive, board President Mike Richards said university presidents could continue approving remote or hybrid work arrangements...
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