This is a problem in business management. If you want to discriminate against an employee in a certain group, you just give them low scores in a performance review. That way you can claim they are a bad employee to justify laying them off or terminating them.
Even if they did nothing to get low scores.
It sort of avoids discrimination lawsuits if they can document that the employee got low scores.
But this is fishy because he was given low scores while on leave.
Something like that happened to me while I was on short-term disability and in a hospital and at home. They had employees sign papers that I was doing all sorts of things to give me low scores. The dates when they claimed I was at work doing those things, I was in a hospital or at home and not at work. When I returned from short-term disability I was put on probation and then fired. They tried to use the stuff against me to block unemployment benefits but the state saw the complaints were on the same dates that I missed work and sided with me considering the complaints were made up. I could have sued for discrimination but it was the best law firm in town, and they could have proven an undue hardship defense because they hired a software consultant for $100/hr to do my job because none of my coworkers could do it.
So I would like to see the manipulation of the low performance ratings to be investigated. You see the years prior I had gotten high scores and pay raises, then as soon as I got sick, low scores and complaints.
I'll be honest, I find this hard to believe. Any employment attorney would absolutely jump at the chance to take a contingency case where there was verifiable proof that a company and coworkers fabricated evidence in order to terminate someone to avoid paying benefits.
When did this happen? If it was within the last 300 days then you should take your case to the EEOC. If the dates were made up then this can be a slam dunk. And the EEOC will sue on your behalf if it's a slam dunk.
Even if they did nothing to get low scores.
It sort of avoids discrimination lawsuits if they can document that the employee got low scores.
But this is fishy because he was given low scores while on leave.
Something like that happened to me while I was on short-term disability and in a hospital and at home. They had employees sign papers that I was doing all sorts of things to give me low scores. The dates when they claimed I was at work doing those things, I was in a hospital or at home and not at work. When I returned from short-term disability I was put on probation and then fired. They tried to use the stuff against me to block unemployment benefits but the state saw the complaints were on the same dates that I missed work and sided with me considering the complaints were made up. I could have sued for discrimination but it was the best law firm in town, and they could have proven an undue hardship defense because they hired a software consultant for $100/hr to do my job because none of my coworkers could do it.
So I would like to see the manipulation of the low performance ratings to be investigated. You see the years prior I had gotten high scores and pay raises, then as soon as I got sick, low scores and complaints.