Relating to work-life stability, some companies do a very good job of recognizing that their workers are additionally individuals. DLA Piper got here underneath hearth for slashing their parental leave by six weeks last year — reveals 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 Choose Analisa Torres mentioned that Anisha Mehta, a former senior affiliate within the agency’s mental property group in San Francisco and New York, “introduced proof that might fairly solid doubt on DLA’s purported motive for firing her.”
It’s price remembering that when DLA Piper claimed that they fired her over “a series of increasingly catastrophic blunders,” they pointed to typos that had been caught earlier than the paperwork left the agency and the slightly subjective “sloppy work product.” As foolish as it will be to fireside somebody for these causes, it’s only honest recreation if the justification isn’t truly a pretext for firing somebody over one thing you may’t hearth them for. After seeing the proof, the presiding decide has some doubts:
[Judge Torres] … mentioned DLA Piper’s performance-based rationale for firing Mehta is “at greatest, in stress with different proof within the file 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 shopper.
Actually unhealthy enterprise transfer to place somebody you assume has sloppy work product on an vital shopper’s matter. A jury will finally resolve if DLA Piper was slicing 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 provide start. Not likely certain which end result is best for the agency’s status.
Law Firm DLA Piper Must Face Lawsuit Over Pregnancy Bias, Judge Rules [Reuters]
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