Waechter v. Aluminum Co. of America

LAVORATO, Justice.

The decisive issue here is whether an employee and an employer reached an agreement that settled the employee’s claim against the employer for allegedly violating Iowa’s employee drug testing law. The district court thought so. We do too, and affirm.

Anne Waechter is an employee at the ALCOA plant in Bettendorf. She has worked there since 1980.

On December 3 Waechter was working the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. That evening she was assigned to drive a Sky Giant fork lift in the hot mill department. These fork lifts are used to haul hot and cold ingots of metal. A fully loaded fork…