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If I was HR why wouldn't you just fire the manager and move on. I mean whether it was legal or illegal the optics look terrible.

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > If I was HR why wouldn't you just fire the manager and move on. Because HR generally doesn't have arbitrary hiring and firing power, and because their job in most firms is to protect, first, the company bottom line from unacceptable risk of legal liability for employment actions and, second, the company’s management (who presumably are looking out for the bottom line in other ways).
  • samfisher83 6y ago
    It would seem to me to reduce the risk you fire the manager.
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      Depends. The manager can always turn around and come after you, and usually managers have more investment put into them so if you look at it from just a numerical perspective it might be worse to do so.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      Reducing risks regardless of level isn't HRs job, and something which is neither an explicitly protected category or one which there is case law identifying.as implicitly within the ambit of one of the explicit categories isn't a concern.