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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by jedberg on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @04:51PM (#32931352)
PIPs are lawsuit fodder. A general layoff where a bunch of people are let go at the same time makes it a lot harder for the person who was let go say it was targeted at them.
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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by dymk on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:33PM (#32932463)
Why do you think PIPs are lawsuit fodder?
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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by baby on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:09PM (#32932825)
They're generally used to prevent a lawsuit, but they do not prevent lawsuits. A layoff on the other hand...
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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by jedberg on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:23PM (#32933377)
Because no matter what you write in a PIP someone could turn around and sue you for it and have a good enough case to at least force a settlement. Everyone has some sort of "protected class" they are part of.

But with a layoff it's really hard to prove the layoff was targeted unless everyone in the layoff happens to be part of the same protected class.

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