[IL] got put on a PIP + Low performance score after coming back from Maternity Leave. Impacted bonus + yearly raise
I genuinely don’t know if I have any recourse here:
I’ve been in sales for 18 years & never before been on a PIP. Not once until now & the timing is impossible to ignore because i was pregnant/maternity leave.
Background: I work remotely for a large Asia based company & I’m on their US team which was only founded a few years ago. I was the first person on the USA team to get pregnant.
I notified my boss in late December 2024. Before that…I consistently got “B” scores on Workday which means “meets expectations”. No complaints from my boss and praised regularly.
Then things changed slowly….my first review after telling him I was pregnant, I got a “C” for the first time ever. My boss actually acknowledged it was partly because a big contract I closed rolled into H2 2025. He told me not to worry, that I was already “set” for H2. So I shrugged it off and wasn’t stressed at all. I went on maternity leave, came back, kept working hard.
This February he gave me another “C.” For that H2 2025… Two consecutive C’s automatically triggers a PIP at this company. So I’m shocked, angry, confused and this feels so wrong. I was literally pregnant, the out for 3 months. I did my absolute best and I genuinely thought I killed it despite what I was going through. I literally went to a conference and met with clients the week before my water broke.
I hit 90% of quota this year despite being out for 3 months on maternity leave. My quota was never adjusted compared to my other 6 team members that are on my team.
The actual written review has no metrics, no quota numbers, nothing measurable. It says my “negotiation skills need improvement”…my boss has never once heard me negotiate. It says a major contract I closed “could have been signed faster if I’d created more urgency.” That contract was a complex sale. He wasn’t involved in it at all.
It also references an implementation issue that happened while I was out on leave, that was something that was completely out of my control, that no one ever told me about. The first time I heard about it was reading it in my own performance review.
Because of this…my annual bonus got cut by a few thousand dollars, and last week I was told I don’t qualify for my yearly raise either.
I don’t even know if I have any rights here because it feels like big companies always find a way to win. But something is very off and I am hoping someone has feedback here