Iowa Crime Victims

Iowa Crime Victims Leave - Iowa Code § 915.23

Covered Employers: All employers

Employee Eligibility: All employees

Entitlement: Reasonable and necessary leave from work to allow a victim to serve as a witness in a criminal proceeding, or as a plaintiff, defendant, or witness in a civil proceeding regarding elder abuse or domestic abuse.

Employer Notice: Not specified

Employee Notice: Employee must provide notice as soon as the need for leave is foreseeable.

Obligation to Provide Certifications or Documents Supporting Need for Leave: employer may require supporting documentation

Paid?: Unpaid

Benefits: Not specified, but the law states that an employer may not sanction an employee or deprive an employee of wages or benefits for
exercising a right granted by this section.

Reinstatement: Not specified, but the law states that an employer may not sanction an employee or deprive an employee of wages or benefits for exercising a right granted by this section. Also states that the employee can petition for reinstatement in the event an employer violates this law.

Relationship with Other Leave: Not specified

Absence Specifications

Concurrency

  • Only concurrent with Federal FMLA if there is an injury or illness that is an FMLA qualified event

Intake Trigger

  • Personal Protected Leave

Employer Eligibility requirements

  • All employers

Employee Eligibility requirements

  • 0 hours worked

  • 0 months of employment

  • Myself

  • Will you be attending court as a victim or witness? = yes

Length of time provided

  • Amount necessary. (open) - per 12 month period