Situation: A friend of mine recently got fired under the circumstance
that he was in violation of the Employee Discrimination Act. As
Director of Sales, he was told by his superiors that they would have
to downsize his management from 4 to 3. Before the decision was even
close to being made, one of his female (pregnant) managers filed a
claim with the corporate HR that he was not considering her for
management because she was pregnant. There was a two day
investigation done by HR. Based on a hearsay by his assistant (which)
was her sole witness, supposedly, he was fired. His assistant claims
that she heard him say to Ms. Manager that, "A good mommy would stay
at home." Being that this is totally untrue. We have found out by
others that these two girls have been conspiring for about two months
and planned this whole thing. As far as the investigation it was not
done thorough and it was basically and one sided investigation.
Because if they have done a good job they would have found that in the
process of evaluating his managers, there is written documentation
that he recommended her for management. So four obvious things: one,
written documnetation contradicting the claim( recommendation), two,
he is not the one who makes the decision, three, this was maliciously
planned, four, there was an unthorough investigation. Is this a strong
case for wrongful termination? |