i am working with a software company with more than 4000 employee world wide, in Mumbai for the last 22 months. So far i have been getting good appraisal results. Now i am expecting (since last 4 months) and this i have already communicated to my PM. i feels from that time onwards the PM and PL were behaving indifferently (thinking that they may not be able to use my full potential and also i am going to be on 2-3 months leave in connection with maternity leave.
Now in the last six monthly appraisal they have given me a rating of 2 (means need improvement). As per the company policy once they give a rating of 2, the concernd employee to work for a performance improvement plan (for 1 month period) and if the 1 month performance is not satisfactory they accordingly terminate the employee. So far seeing the trend those employees whom they wanted to terminate they first put in performance level 2 and subsequently terminate (it seems apparantly there is a news that they want to terminate a group of rmployees some time during this month) .
i refused to sign the performance appraisal sheet mentioning that my performance has never been low to the level of 2. Further i have escalated this to my delivery manager and they plan to have a meeting tomorrow on this with PM and HR
Sir, few things I need your suggestion in this regard
(a) During the period of meternity, can a person’s performance be rated as poor (as obviously one could not work to the same level of expectation as that of normal time) and based on which subsequently terminate the service
(b) As I understand during the period of maternity an employees service cannot be terminated saying that she is of poor perofrmance
(c) What should she mention in my favour while during the discussion
