MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 17 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: * * * Federal Agency Charged Cleaning Service Provider Routinely Subjected Female Employees to Sexual Harassment * * * The Cleaning Authority-Fox Valley, a cleaning service provider in eastern Wisconsin, will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agen  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 18 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the remaining bills into law: HF 2686: A bill for an act relating to the organization, structure, and functions of state and local governments, providing for salaries of certain state officers, making statutory corrections, resolving inconsistencies, removing ambiguities, and including effective date provisions. SF 2370: A bill for an act concerning the exe  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 18 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Today at Horizon Science Academy in Des Moines, Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 2368, a bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the sale of real property by school districts, charter school and open enrollment funding, and the participation in school activities by students enrolled in charter schools, into law. Additionally, the governor announce  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 17 (TNSres) -- Iowa Workforce Development issued the following news release: Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.8 percent in April, down from last month's rate of 2.9 percent and tying the rate from a year ago. The state's labor force participation rate fell to 66.8 percent, down from 67 percent last month. Meanwhile, the U.S. unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in April. "April's report shows signs of easing across the Iowa economy, with several industr  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 17 -- The Ohio Department of Education issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) Director Stephen D. Dackin today announced he is recommending the appointment of Jeremy B. Varner to be the Department's new deputy director leading the Division of Career-Technical Education and Workforce. Varner joins the Department from the Iowa Department of Education, where he served as administrator of the Division of Community Col  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A Carroll County registered nurse who stole controlled substances from patients and falsified medical records at a life care center where she was employed was sentenced today to 7 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. Cassandra Lynne Vonnahme, age 32, from Arcadia, Iowa, pled guilty to one count of acquiring a controlled substance by means of   more