IN BREIF: Silicon Valley Business Journal editor-in-chief Scott Ard has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo alleging gender-based discrimination against men. The lawsuit filed in a federal district court in San Jose, California, claimed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, “encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees.”
Yahoo Discrimination against Men Lawsuit
This isn’t the first time Yahoo has found itself in hot waters over its review system. Earlier this year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on another lawsuit filed by a former media executive fired from the company. The lawsuit against Yahoo alleged that the review system was prejudicial to male employees.
As per his LinkedIn profile, Scott Ard reportedly worked at Yahoo for three and a half years and served as the company’s editorial director. He had scored positive performance reviews and stock awards before Mayer introduced the quarterly performance review system. The QPR system left him with an unsatisfactory ranking before he was illegally laid off in January 2015.
“Yahoo’s QPR Process permitted manipulation without oversight or accountability and was thus more arbitrary and discriminatory than the stack ranking used for a while by other employees,” the lawsuit said.
Ard claims that since 2012, Yahoo has fired more than 50 employees within a 30-day period on several occasions under the QPR system.
The lawsuit against Yahoo accused it of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification regulations. It also claims that former Yahoo CMO Kathy Savitt, “intentionally hired and promoted women because of their gender.” It stated that 14 out of 16 senior level editorial employees hired were in fact, women.
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SOURCE: The HR Digest
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