Yahoo Accused of Reverse Gender Bias by Fired Male Worker
February 1, 2016
SACRAMENTO — A former Yahoo Inc. editorial director has sued the company for gender discrimination, alleging that female executives manipulated an employee evaluation system to get rid of him.
In a suit filed Monday in
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Gregory Anderson
seeks unspecified damages and a judicial declaration that the Sunnyvale-based
search engine and media company used its quarterly performance reviews, or
QPRs, to justify at-will terminations that were in reality "capricious,
arbitrary and the product of bias."
A statement issued
Monday by Yahoo did not specifically address Anderson's gender discrimination
claims but said that the company's review process provides employees
"meaningful, regular, and actionable feedback from others."