Is offering promotions to only a few employee’s and not all of them legal?
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Is offering promotions to only a few employee’s and not all of them legal?
My job currently gave the opportunity for promotion to a few new hire’s however excluded the old hire’s to receive a promotion.
Asked on April 20, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
Hong Shen / Roberts Law Group
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Promotion, normally, is performance based. There is nothing written in the book that if one employee gets a promotion all other employees must get promotions too. However, if there is a solid proof that the older employees could not get promotions solely due to their ages, then there might be a violation of state and federal laws.
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