Rutgers Business School sued for increasing job success rate
The lawsuit alleges the alleged scheme was aimed at boosting the school’s rankings with crucial media outlets such as US News, World Report and Financial Times.
Rutgers Business School reports how quickly its graduates get jobs before and after graduation. This data is used by organizations to assess the success of its program.
For its difficulty in trying to prevent the alleged scheme from taking place, the suit says White’s supervisors retaliated by creating a hostile work environment. He describes several examples such as refusing his support staff, increasing his workload, including being assigned to a major project, and refusing a promotion and a raise.
The lawsuit further alleges that Melissa Rivera, one of the defendants, began advertising White’s position as available. The lawsuit also alleges retaliation was taken when White took sick leave to treat a medical condition. She suffers from Graves disease.
White’s suit also describes the program implemented to improve the school’s ranking, which is also described in a federal class action lawsuit filed Tuesday.
This file was filed by the firm on behalf of Lorenzo Budet, claiming that their client would have chosen a different program and not “agreed to pay [the business school’s] premium tuition “had Rutgers” did not receive these high rankings. Budet began his studies in September 2019 in the school’s MBA Supply Chain Management program.
