My fiancée has worked for the same company for 2 years. She makes both salary and commission but the company has grown so they have begun cutting in on how much commission the employees make. Last year, my fiancée dealt with a sexual harassment situation at work, where she reported someone harassing her, but since then her own supervisor has always treated her differently. He felt she was stirring up trouble by reporting it. She is on a team with 12 other employees who all have the same job description yet they took her aside last week and told her that they were setting higher sales goals for her, higher than anyone else on her team. For example, they do these web site demos to bring in new customers. Everyone else on the team is expected to do 3 a day but they have her at 8. It appears they are trying to force her to quit or make it so they can fire her for not hitting expected quotas. Other than people saying she should quit, is this some kind of form of discrimination?
If she filed a sexual harassment complaint prior to this, this action COULD POSSIBLY be construed as retaliation which is illegal. Bear in mind that retaliation claims are pretty hard to substantiate. If she wants to proceed, she needs concrete documentation of the different standards and to rule out any other possible reason for the different standard (ie. she has more experience, longer tenure, etc). She can talk with an EEOC counselor for more info.
When your employer drives you to quit. EEOC Violation?
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