Lawsuit claims Yahoo job reviews discriminated towards men

San Francisco A Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) media executive fired from the net organization closing year has filed a lawsuit claiming a process evaluation procedure applied via chief executive Marissa Mayer was used to cut guys from executive ranks and lay them off illegally, courtroom papers confirmed.

Scott Ard, a former senior editorial director at Yahoo, filed the lawsuit in California's Northern District courtroom in San Jose on Tuesday, saying the company violated federal civil rights and employment guidelines.

Yahoo spokeswoman Carolyn Clark stated in a statement that the lawsuit had no advantage and referred to as the performance evaluation manner "honest."

The lawsuit is the second one this year accusing Yahoo of discrimination in opposition to guys, and targets one of the highest-profile Silicon Valley lady executives, Mayer, who is within the center of divesting Yahoo's core assets after failing to show the organization round.

Ard, who joined Yahoo in 2011, argued that he had received average tremendous performance reviews and inventory awards before Mayer introduced a quarterly performance evaluate (QPR) system that left him with an unsatisfactory ranking.

"Yahoo's QPR procedure authorised manipulation with out oversight or responsibility and turned into for this reason greater arbitrary and discriminatory than the stack ranking used for some time by using different employees," the lawsuit said.

It accused Yahoo of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and U.S. worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification rules.

Ard claims that seeing that 2012, Yahoo has terminated more than 50 employees within a 30-day period on several events underneath the machine, consistent with court docket documents. Yahoo had 9,400 personnel as of March.

The lawsuit additionally claims former chief advertising Officer Kathy Savitt "deliberately employed and promoted women because of their gender," noting that 14 of about 16 senior level editorial personnel employed by way of her had been girls.

In February, former Yahoo automobiles handling Editor Gregory Anderson sued the organization, accusing it of gender discrimination and violations related to the process evaluation technique.