Yockey v. State

HARRIS, Justice.

A former employee’s suit claims she was wrongfully discharged in retaliation for having filed a workers’ compensation claim. The evidence adduced at trial did not support any assertion that she was discharged for that reason. The evidence disclosed the discharge was prompted by another reason: frequent absences, some of which — according to the evidence — were attributable to work-related injuries. Based on the theory pled, we need not and do not decide whether Iowa’s workers’ compensation Act implicitly grants an employee a reasonable time to recover following a work-related…