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RandySF

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Fri Mar 27, 2015, 05:27 PM Mar 2015

Twitter faces gender bias lawsuit.

Former Twitter employee Tina Huang has launched a proposed class-action lawsuit, claiming her former employer has a complicated promotion system that unfairly favors men over women.

In her complaint, which was obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, Huang's lawyers describe how she was denied a promotion in 2013.

According to the suit, there are eight titles in the engineering department's hierarchy, which Twitter calls its "technical ladder." The company posts job descriptions on its web site, but they're allegedly meant to attract interest to Twitter only, and don't necessarily reflect actual job openings.

Current employees cannot apply for them, the complaint says.

Though employees can nominate themselves for promotions during regular performance reviews, typically "employees are tapped on the shoulder for advancement," according to the complaint, and it's the manager who's responsible for making a case as to why a particular employee should be promoted.



http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lawsuit-claims-arbitrary-and-unjust-system-for-employee-promotions-2015-3#ixzz3VcjfYqpM

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Twitter faces gender bias lawsuit. (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2015 OP
A policy of promotion recommendation from the manager is "arbitrary and unjust"? lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #1
 

lumberjack_jeff

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1. A policy of promotion recommendation from the manager is "arbitrary and unjust"?
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 06:27 PM
Mar 2015

I don't get it.

In fact, I've never worked anywhere where that wasn't the case. Promotion isn't a DIY thing.

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