Michael v. Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

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• holding that placing employee on brief paid administrative leave and 90-day performance plan meet “relatively low bar” of materially adverse action for purpose of retaliation claim
• holding that placing employee on brief paid administrative leave and 90-day performance plan meet “relatively low bar” of materially adverse action for purpose of retaliation claim
• concluding that the employer “presented sound, nondiseriminatory reasons for [disciplining the employee] based on a reasonable investigation of events that occurred”
• holding that this court does not require “that the decisional process used by the employer be optimal or that it left no stone unturned.”
• holding that \brief placement on paid administrative leave and the 90-day performance plan[ ] appear to meet th[e] relatively low bar\ set by Burlington
• holding that pretext can be demonstrated if the legitimate reasons proffered \did not actually motivate the defendant's challenged conduct\ or were \insufficient to warrant the challenged conduct\

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