Agency Seeks Investigators for Misclassification Program

Iowa Workforce Development has two vacancies for investigators to work in the recently established misclassification program, which deals with incorrectly classifying employees as independent contractors. The investigators will be part of the unemployment insurance section of the Tax Bureau.Creation of the misclassification program was recommended in December by a task force created by Gov. Chet Culver (D) to investigate problems of misclassification of employees and how that affects state tax revenues, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation programs.A goal of the program is to...