Des Moines, IA – State Auditor Rob Sand, Monday, voted to provide Department of Corrections (DOC) employees back-pay owed to them for on-the-job COVID-19 testing. The required testing occurred prior to the employees clocking in for their shifts at the Newton Correctional Facility from July 2020 to May 2021.

“Iowans expect to pay a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” said Sand. “Plus, correctional officers’ jobs are already dangerous enough.”

Sand is one of three members of the State Appeal Board. The board voted unanimously on Monday to provide more than $112,000 in back pay to more than 235 current and former DOC employees.