Legal Question in Employment Law in Iowa

I live in Iowa, My current employer requires me to be on-call several days of the week. I am a stocker, and unload our truck when it comes. But if it does not come, I am required to be on-call until the day it finally comes. This week, I was on-call Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday, but didn't work Sunday / Monday / Tuesday, so had to give up my days waiting for a call, but because the truck never came, I never got the call tell that night telling me to be by my phone the next day. I am not compensated for this in anyway, but I am one of 3 people who are on-call, and we HAVE to come in, this is not a choice. We will be written up and fired if we do not answer our phones and come to work. Which means, I sometimes have to sit for days without being able to do anything, because I may have to drop what I'm doing and rush to work... Is it legal for them to do this to me without any form of compensation ?


Asked on 1/08/14, 7:30 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Luedeman solo practitioner

Iowa is a right to work state which means you can be terminated for any reason good reason or no reason at all unless you have a contract of employment or are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. If you do not have any of those things, the employer gets to make the rules.

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Answered on 1/14/14, 1:35 pm


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