Runyon v. Kubota Tractor Corp.

NEUMAN, Justice.

This dispute is over a $3979 deduction taken from an employee’s bonus check. The question is whether Iowa Code chapter 91A (1999), our wage payment collection law, governs the controversy and, if so, whether the deduction violated section 91A.5(2)(c), which prohibits deductions for “[ljosses due to ... default of customer credit.”

The district court determined, as a matter of law, that chapter 91A applies to this dispute. So the factual debate over the nature and purpose of the deduction was submitted to the jury. But, relying on this court’s holding in Dallenbach v. Mapco Gas…