DEARBORN – Ford Motor Co. is giving longtime employees with job performance issues the option to voluntarily leave the company under a policy update, the company confirmed last week.
A new option gives certain employees the ability to leave the company with severance packages rather than go through the automaker’s performance management system, known internally as a Performance Enhancement Plan or PEP, according to company spokesperson Marisa Bradley.
That plan has long been in place for U.S. salaried workers with at least eight years of service at Ford. Under that process, white-collar workers who have been flagged for underperforming in their roles have weekly check-ins with their managers and objectives to meet over a roughly six-week period. Failure to turn around their performance at the end of the process could result in their termination.
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