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March 27 saw the Iowa Supreme Court grant further review in not one but two important drug-testing cases.\u00a0 Besides deciding to hear Dix v. Casey\u2019s General Stores, Inc.<\/em> (covered here<\/a>), the Court also granted review in Woods v. Charles Gabus Ford, Inc.<\/em><\/a> (19-0002).\u00a0 Charles Gabus challenges the Court of Appeals\u2019 ruling that it failed to substantially comply with the drug-testing statute\u2019s post-test notice requirement.<\/p>\n

Woods was fired after he failed a drug test.\u00a0 Iowa\u2019s drug-testing statute requires an employer like Charles Gabus to send the employee notice of the positive test along with specified contents, including the employee\u2019s right to seek a confirmatory drug test.\u00a0 Woods undisputedly received the notice.\u00a0 Even so, he sued, asserting that the notice failed to recite the cost of the confirmatory drug test, as required under the statute.<\/p>\n

Charles Gabus conceded that its notice didn\u2019t feature that cost.\u00a0 Instead, Charles Gabus argued it didn\u2019t violate the statute because its notice \u201csubstantially complied\u201d with the notice provision.\u00a0 The Supreme Court has held that substantial compliance with the notice provision will do \u201cif the employer\u2019s actions falling \u2018short of strict compliance . . . nonetheless accomplish the important objective of providing notice to the employee of the positive test result and a meaningful opportunity to consider whether to undertake a confirmatory test.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Iowa Court of Appeals agreed with Woods, reversing the District Court.\u00a0 The lower court had reasoned that the notice said that if the confirmatory test were negative for drugs, Woods would be reimbursed for its cost, making the cost zero and thus essentially immaterial to the post-test notice.\u00a0 Indeed, Woods testified merely that he \u201cmight\u201d have gotten the confirmatory test had he known its cost.\u00a0 Yet the Court of Appeals rejected this analysis, concluding that Woods could not make an informed decision without the test\u2019s cost.\u00a0 It thus found that Woods was deprived of a meaningful opportunity to consider whether to take the confirmatory test.\u00a0 So no substantial compliance.<\/p>\n

Charles Gabus doesn\u2019t challenge the substantial-compliance standard, only its application in the case.\u00a0 The notice Charles Gabus sent met the notice provision\u2019s other requirements; it notified Woods of the positive test and his right to seek a confirmatory test.\u00a0 It also notified Woods that he\u2019d be reimbursed for the confirmatory test\u2019s cost if it returned negative.\u00a0 It is in this context that the Supreme Court will determine with the notice, despite featuring the cost, substantially complied with the drug-testing statute.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll follow up when the Court issues its opinion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 27 saw the Iowa Supreme Court grant further review in not one but two important drug-testing cases.\u00a0 Besides deciding to hear Dix v. Casey\u2019s General Stores, Inc. (covered here), the Court also granted review in Woods v. Charles Gabus Ford, Inc. 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