Managing Non-Performers —Fioernza

Honest Evaluations

Let’s say, for example, that you have an employee whose prior annual evaluations indicate that her job performance is “satisfactory,” even though it was not. This is not uncommon, since many managers are reluctant to rate overall performance as “unsatisfactory.”

Where such an employee is later fired due to poor performance, those annual evaluations will be used as evidence to “prove” that the employer’s reason for firing the employee is false, and that illegal discrimination is the “real” reason.