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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. a. An interpreter available at the work site for each
shift during which non-English speaking employees are employed.
b. 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; 2008 Acts, ch 1032,
§ 201
