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People at my work are being targeted for termination to meet a metric.. is this legal?

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At my where I have been for the past 9 years things have been getting a little shady. I am a , so together with the we all sit down with the rest of the supervisors and decide what floor associates review ratings are going to be. Recently, there has been a big push from our store manager that 10% of the associates being reviewed HAVE to be put on a , where if they don’t improve to satisfy the store manager they are terminated in 60 days. At times when we review associates and everyone in that review cycle is performing at an , our store manager says that we have to go back and rate the associates again because we are not meeting the required 10%. In one instance and associate that had no prior disciplinary documentation was targeted and our manager told her supervisor that he has a month to write her up and get all the documentation needed to place her on this so that we could be at that 10%

This has been going on for the past year and people are being terminated simply so we can meet this 10% metric…. Is this legal?

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  1. Judy on Mar 02, 2011

    It’s not illegal. I think it’s pretty stupid though.

    In the US, most employees are "employees at will" and could be fired with no reason if the company wanted to. Usually doesn’t happen though to good employees.



  2. Zarg222 on Mar 02, 2011

    nothing illegal about that – in at-will states, employees can be terminated for any or no reason at any time



  3. couldbe on Mar 02, 2011

    While not illegal, I think it immoral at best and would be re-thinking my own position with this company and If I wanted to continue my association with them. Why would they think up reasons to fire someone instead od simply doing a reduction in force lay-off. It could be difficult for these people to get re-employed with a termination on their record.


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