Female Bank Employee Wrongfully Terminated Following Maternity Leave

ByVictoria Negron

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Updated onAugust 21, 2018

This case involves a wrong termination dispute at a large bank. The employee in question was granted 12 weeks of maternity leave at the end of the calendar year. In her absence, the company hired someone to perform her job in the interim. The employee suffered a particularly difficult pregnancy due to her past medical history of severe arthritis. When the employee returned in the new year, she had limited mobility but was still able to perform her job at the same caliber she had before taking maternity leave. Within a week of her return, the employee was notified that her job description had changed while she was away. According to her supervisor, the job description included a specific physical and functional capacity which she could no longer perform. As a result, she was terminated from her position. The employee who took her place noted that the job description he received did not include information on any specific physical and functional aspects. It was alleged that the company changed the job description after the employee’s return to push her out. An expert in computer forensics was sought to conduct a forensic analysis on the company’s intranet to determine when the job description was changed.

Question(s) For Expert Witness

1. Please describe your experience performing forensic analysis of information manipulated via intranet.

Expert Witness Response E-020691

inline imageI have reviewed many employment matters in which document metadata is at issue. If the job description was contained in a document, the document metadata would be an important piece of evidence because it may contain file creation, access and modification dates and times. If the description was only on web-based medium and only accessed online through the intranet, it would have to be proved or disproved that someone accessed the job description and altered it at some point. For this, logs would be required showing who accessed the area of the intranet containing the job description during the time frame in question. Intranet systems range in architecture, design, and functionality. I would need more specific information about how the description was composed, stored, and accessed to determine when the job description was changed.

About the author

Victoria Negron

Victoria Negron

Victoria Negron has extensive experience in journalism and thought leadership in the legal space, with a background crafting content, whitepapers, webinars, and current event articles pertaining to the role of expert witnesses in complex litigation matters. She is a skilled professional specializing in B2B product marketing and content marketing. Currently, she serves as an Enterprise Product Marketing Manager at Postman, and previously held the position of Technical Product Marketing Manager at Palantir Technologies, where she developed her skills in launch strategies, go-to-market strategy, and competitive analysis.

Her expertise in content marketing was further refined during her tenure at the Expert Institute, where she progressed from a Marketing Writer to Senior Content Marketing Manager, and eventually to Associate Director of Content & Product Marketing. In these roles, she honed her abilities in digital marketing, SEO, content strategy, and thought leadership.

Educationally, Victoria holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida - Warrington College of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature, Art, and Hispanic Studies from Hamilton College. Her diverse educational background and professional experience have equipped her with a robust skill set in product marketing, content development, and strategic marketing initiatives.

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