Evaluations
Last week, the Guild learned that written evaluation forms were being distributed to Guild represented employees at Time Inc., and managers were, asking employees to evaluate their own performance in writing. The Guild contacted Tina Kremenezky, Assistant Director of Employment Law for Time Inc., who serves as management’s representative at the weekly Guild/management grievance meetings, and asked her to look into the apparent contract violations as soon as possible. Our Guild contract specifies that evaluations be oral, not written.
At a
February 9 meeting, Kremenezky agreed to the Guild’s request that management
stop handing out paper evaluation forms, destroy those that had already been
collected, and not make a self-evaluation part of the oral evaluation. Human
Resources will inform managers of that decision.
Please remember the following points: 1) the oral evaluation is
optional, employees can decline to participate; 2) if employees want a written
summary of an oral evaluation, they must ask the manager within a week of the
evaluation, and the manager must provide one, but cannot require employees to
sign it.
Some workers rightly view the written summaries as good insurance
policies, if the oral review has been a good one.
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02/12/04