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Title    Yahoo!'s Employee Ranking Targeted in Mass Termination Lawsuit
Date    Saturday February 06 2016, @08:23PM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the gotta-cut-costs-somehow dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/02/06/049223

q.kontinuum (submitted via IRC by MrPlow) writes:

Yahoo! Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of manipulating employee performance evaluations to justify firing hundreds of workers in order to meet its financial targets.

Gregory Anderson, who was an editor for some of Yahoo's online news content, claims he and about 600 others at the company were unfairly fired in 2014 after managers retooled a numerical ranking system to downgrade their performance.

The mass terminations occurred without appropriate notice in violation of state and federal laws, according to the complaint filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, California. Anderson also accused the company of gender discrimination under the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing internal promotions he said were limited to female candidates.

"The employees were never told their actual metric numeric ranking or how it had been determined," according to the complaint. The quarterly performance rating process "therefore permitted and encouraged discrimination based on gender and any other personal bias held by management."

California law requires that the termination of 50 or more employees within a month occur with a 60-day notice period. Anderson was told by Yahoo that he was fired while attending a journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan granted with the support of the company, according to the complaint. He said he was informed the decision was effective immediately.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/yahoo-s-employee-ranking-targeted-in-mass-termination-lawsuit

Earlier Coverage: Yahoo! Turnaround Plan: Proxy War and Fire Mayer?


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