Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Liability Lessened from Office Dating


love contracts should be used to supplement a company's policies of anti harassment , not as a well-implemented policy against sexual harassment.the potential legal liabilities of office romances are when ----If a supervisor is dating a subordinate, other employees can claim that the subordinate got biased treatment in job work or salary raises.
-If the relationship ends, the subordinate can claim that the relationship was not consensual or mutual and also he or she was sexually harassed by the supervisor, was the victim of retaliation.
-If they are on the same reporting level, legal concerns can arise,.. when the relationship ends , one person can create a hostile work environment by giving the other person attention which is not required.

Also the contract must contain provisions such that dispute arising from the relationship or contract will be resolved through arbitration and such as Either employee can end the relationship without fear of work-related retaliation.

but are the love contracts an answer to the problem ? if we have to cover such problems by a contract , then there are lot of issues which are to be covered by contract.Humans-even those in power suits covered by contracts are ruled by emotions. And emotions are spectacularly messy. Emotions shouldn't be defined in corporate terms, and they can't be reduced to a legal document with any significance.

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