My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Iowa
Hello ,
I am currently having some issues at the workplace and personally I feel like I am being discriminated againest. I was hoping I could run my story by here and see maybe if anyone had any feedback as I am confused.
In short I work for a company and I have been there two years. I am an excellant worker with a perfect work history. Over the last two years I have applied for 4 different jobs with no success of moving up in the company. In the last month I applied for a job and was interviewed twice. Now when the company choose the person who received the job, this employee was in bad standing with the company. They had just came out of a suspension after applying for the job. In our company handbook it states "Only employees in good standing with regard to performance, safety and attendance will be considered for open positions." Should this employee have received the job over me is the question?
In another job I applied for I feel I was well qualified for also. I interviewed and was then later told someone else received the job. Now a few months later the person who received the job tells me that the manager interviewing for the position "begged" him or her to apply for the job. Was that even fair to me? I feel like I didn't even have a chance.
Those are the two situations I have questions about. In one of the job postings I interviewed for it and was given the job but as the economy is now I was told I would be first to get laid off. I did not get to start though. The company did lay offs a month later.
The other job I interviewed for the position was given to someone who did probably deserve the job so no questions there.
Any thoughts are welcomed.
Thank You.

