On the subject of work-life stability, some companies do a very good job of recognizing that their workers are additionally folks. DLA Piper got here beneath hearth for slashing their parental depart by six weeks final yr — exhibits you the place they stand on that. The yr earlier than, the agency was sued by Anisha Mehta. She claimed that the agency fired her, a seventh-year affiliate, for requesting to take maternity depart — they confirmed her the door six days after she made her request. She’s nonetheless going toe-to-toe with the agency over the firing, and the case is heading to trial. Reuters has protection:
U.S. District Decide Analisa Torres mentioned that Anisha Mehta, a former senior affiliate within the agency’s mental property group in San Francisco and New York, “offered proof that would fairly forged doubt on DLA’s purported cause for firing her.”
It’s price remembering that when DLA Piper claimed that they fired her over “a collection of more and more catastrophic blunders,” they pointed to typos that have been caught earlier than the paperwork left the agency and the reasonably subjective “sloppy work product.” As foolish as it will be to fireplace somebody for these causes, it is just honest sport if the justification isn’t really a pretext for firing somebody over one thing you possibly can’t hearth them for. After seeing the proof, the presiding choose has some doubts:
[Judge Torres] … mentioned DLA Piper’s performance-based rationale for firing Mehta is “at greatest, in rigidity with different proof within the report or, at worst, plainly contradicted by it,” citing raises and bonuses she earned throughout her time on the agency, in addition to Mehta’s work with an vital consumer.
Actually unhealthy enterprise transfer to place somebody you assume has sloppy work product on an vital consumer’s matter. A jury will in the end determine if DLA Piper was reducing their losses after making a poor personnel project on a high-value case or minimize a valued worker who was with them for almost a decade as a result of she was going to present start. Probably not certain which end result is healthier for the agency’s repute.
Legislation Agency DLA Piper Should Face Lawsuit Over Being pregnant Bias, Decide Guidelines [Reuters]
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