San Francisco: A Yahoo Inc media executive fired from the internet company last year has filed a lawsuit claiming a job review process implemented by chief executive Marissa Mayer was used to cut men from executive ranks and lay them off illegally, court papers showed. Ard, who joined Yahoo in 2011, argued that he had received overall positive performance reviews and stock awards before Mayer introduced a quarterly performance review (QPR) system that left him with an unsatisfactory ranking. “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. It accused Yahoo of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and US Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification regulations. In February, former Yahoo Autos managing editor Gregory Anderson sued the company, accusing it of gender discrimination and violations related to the job review process.

Source: Mint October 08, 2016 07:52 UTC