Labor Services:
- Enforces safety in the workplace
- Provides consultation to employers on occupational safety health compliance
- Conducts amusement ride, elevator and boiler inspections
- Maintains statistical information of workers' illness and injuries
- Enforces wage, labor and child laws

Workers' Compensation:
- Oversee medical and wage replacement benefits to workers for injuries on the job, occupational diseases or hearing loss
- Conducts workers' compensation mediations and hearings

Unemployment Insurance:
- Collects unemployment insurance taxes
- Maintains Iowa Unemployment Trust Fund
- Makes payments to eligible jobless workers

Administrative Services:
- Provides Administrative support for employee services, building management, office service functions, and financial and accounting
- Develops, maintains and manages IWD information technology services

Workforce Development Center Administration:
- Manages a network of Workforce offices throughout Iowa
- Serves one-stop locations on workforce issues
- Provides job counseling, job training and assistance and special services to special needs populations
- Provides labor market statistics such as occupational wages and future labor market issues
- Provides support for the IWD Board