Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says an administrative law judge made the right call in denying future unemployment benefits to a fired state administrator. The governor fired Iowa Finance Authority director Dave Jamison about 11 weeks ago after two women in the agency complained he was sexually harassing them. Jamison got three-thousand dollars’ worth of unemployment before the governor’s staff appealed to stop the payments. Reynolds says filing an appeal earlier would have revealed the identity of the women who came forward.
Reynolds says once one of the women agreed that her letter outlining the accusations against Jamison could be publicly released, an appeal could be filed to try to stop Jamison’s unemployment checks.
Reynolds staff first told statehouse reporters there were no documents related to Jamison’s firing in late March. About a month later, the governor’s office released the long letter one of Jamison’s employees wrote about the alleged harassment, warning that his bad behavior was escalating, and it made women in the agency feel unsafe at work.
