Yahoo's Employee Ranking Targeted in Mass Termination Lawsuit
- Company accused of manipulating performance evaluation system
- CEO Mayer may eliminate more jobs in cost-cutting program
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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.