IOWA-BASED pharmacy technician, Misty Coenen, is suing Walmart after being fired for failing a drug test.
Coenen received her marching orders in Nov 2021, after spending seven years working at the pharmacy group's store in Clarke County, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported.
Court documents revealed that Coenen's mobile phone was seized by local authorities in Jul 2021 after she was charged with violating a no-contact order.
In Oct 2021 Walmart District Manager, Nancy Laymon, summoned Coenen to a meeting with Walmart Global Investigator, John Oldfather, during which it emerged that she was suspected of drug use, based on a text message exchange she had with an unnamed person four months earlier.
Coenen was subsequently ordered to provide a urine test, however, she claims that the sample she gave was not split into two samples in line with standard drug testing protocols.
She was fired a few weeks later, with Walmart reporting that she had tested positive for "drugs of some kind".
Coenen lawsuit claims that Walmart's drug testing policy did not comply with State legislation, saying there was no rational basis for the test, and the failure to split the sample denied her the right to have a second test reviewed at a laboratory of her choosing.
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