§ 602.1401 — Personnel system

Iowa § 602.1401

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 602: JUDICIAL BRANCH

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1. The supreme court shall establish, and may amend, a personnel system and a pay
and benefits plan for court employees. The personnel system shall include a designation
by position title, classification, and function of each position or class of positions within the
judicial branch. Reasonable efforts shall be made to accommodate the individual staffing and
management practices of the respective clerks of the district court. The personnel system, in
the employment of court employees, shall not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color,
sex, national origin, religion, physical disability, or political party preference. The supreme
court, in establishing the personnel system, shall implement the comparable worth directives
issued by the state court administrator under section 602.1204, subsection 2. The personnel
system shall include the prohibitions against sexual harassment of full-time, part-time, and
temporary employees set out in section 19B.12, and shall include a grievance procedure for
discriminatory harassment. The personnel system shall develop and distribute at the time of
hiring or orientation, a guide that describes for employees the applicable sexual harassment

prohibitions and grievance, violation, and disposition procedures. This subsection does not
supersede the remedies provided under chapter 216.
2. Thesupremecourtshallcompileandpublishalldocumentsthatestablishthepersonnel
system, and shall distribute a copy of the compilation and all amendments to each operating
component of the judicial branch.
3. a. The state court administrator is the public employer of judicial branch employees
for purposes of chapter 20, relating to public employment relations.
b. For purposes of chapter 20, the certified representative, which on July 1, 1983,
represents employees who become judicial branch employees as a result of 1983 Iowa Acts,
ch. 186, shall remain the certified representative when the employees become judicial branch
employees and thereafter, unless the public employee organization is not retained and
recertified or is decertified in an election held under section 20.15 or amended or absorbed
intoanothercertifiedorganizationpursuanttochapter20. Collectivebargainingnegotiations
shall be conducted on a statewide basis and the certified employee organizations which
engage in bargaining shall negotiate on a statewide basis, although bargaining units shall
be organized by judicial district. The employment appeal board shall adopt rules pursuant
to chapter 17A to implement this subsection.
4. The supreme court may establish reasonable classes of employees and a pay and
benefits plan for the classes of employees as necessary to accomplish the purposes of the
personnel system.
5. The pay and benefits plan shall set the compensation and benefits of court employees
within the funds appropriated by the general assembly.
6. The benefits plan established by the supreme court may provide for benefits to court
employees not covered under a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to
chapter 20, notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 70A.1 or 70A.23, consistent
with benefits provided to court employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement
entered into with the state court administrator pursuant to chapter 20.