Work and wages: wage collection and misclassification
What they say
Her campaign's list of what she would do to lower costs ends with growing Iowa's economy to raise jobs and wages while continuing to invest in organized labour.
“Growing Iowa’s economy to increase jobs and wages while continuing to invest in organized labor and union protected man hours”
What the record shows ·
Two of the five bills she sponsored alone are on exactly this: House File 634, on wage payment collection issues between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and House File 635, increasing penalties for employers who willfully misclassify employees for unemployment compensation purposes. Both were introduced on February 23, 2021 and referred to the Labor committee, and neither has any action recorded after that referral.
Limit: Two bills she wrote alone address wage collection and employee misclassification, which runs the same way as a platform line about raising wages and investing in organized labour. The match is at the level of direction and no closer: the platform names neither subject, and it takes no position on the minimum wage, prevailing wages or the right to organize, so nothing here is a match on specifics. Neither bill left committee, so there is no vote or outcome to weigh. This card sets a state record beside a federal platform, which is the only comparison her record allows.