Legal Question in Employment Law in Iowa

is it illegal to forcefully transfer an employee as a solution for filing a complaint within the company about another employee?

Grinnell, IA

I was forcefully transferred to another store within the company 40 minutes away after having filed a written complaint about another employee after being subjected to her yelling, screaming, swearing, verbally bashing me and slamming a door in my face, all within hearing range of other employees and customers at work. I was told that failure to accept the transfer meant I no longer had a job. I had to quit because I could not commit to the cost of commuting to work, and the lesser hours I had been scheduled to start, the requirement of varying shifts that conflicted with my availability as a single mom and caring for my son. I was not offered pay incentive to make up the difference in less hours, gas cost, or the additional child care cost I would have endured.


Asked on 1/08/14, 6:32 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 a collective bargaining agreement. Do you have any of those things?

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Answered on 1/14/14, 1:32 pm


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