Legal Question in Employment Law in Iowa

I was terminated from my job because after a year and a half of my wife and I taking break together my boss told me this was no longer allowed. There are no company policies that dont allow this and I told him that it seemed unfair that this new rule applied only to me but I would abide by it but I would most likly seek other employment. After discussing with my wife I went back and told my boss that I still didnt agree but I was not willing to throw away my twenty year career because of it, he told me the management committee discussed it and felt I was a security risk and thereby terminated. What is my recourse?


Asked on 10/26/09, 9:25 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Luedeman solo practitioner

Iowa is a right to work state which means that you can be terminated for any reason, good reason or no reason at all and without recourse, unless you have a contract of employment-which is why all those employee handbooks say they're specifically not contracts of employment.

I'm sorry I can't be more positive but unless you can point to some specifically discriminatory part of this process-that you are being discriminated against because of race, religion, gender, national origin or handicap you're not going to get far.

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Answered on 11/01/09, 10:45 pm


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