Workplace personal relationships

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• Valentine's Day: 10 potential problems with workplace romances

  Date:

  10 February 2017

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Can employers have rules on personal relationships at work? Is it harassment for a worker to ask a colleague out on a date? Is it ever appropriate for a line manager to interfere in an employee's love life? With Valentine's Day approaching, we look at 10 potential problems with workplace romances.

• Put in place a policy on personal relationships at work

  Type:

  Tasks

• How to manage personal relationships at work

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on managing personal relationships at work.

• Workplace relationships policy and impact: 2012 XpertHR survey

  Date:

  26 March 2012

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Intimate relationships at work can lead to problems such as favouritism and decreased morale. We find out how to establish and implement an effective policy to deal with these issues.

• Employer approaches to workplace relationships: 2012 XpertHR survey

  Date:

  26 March 2012

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Employers are most likely to intervene in workplace relationships where employees display overt sexual behaviour or embark on a love affair, or if a manager has a relationship with a subordinate, according to XpertHR research.

• Policy on personal relationships at work

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model policy on personal relationships at work.

• Personal relationships at work quiz

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on personal relationships at work.

• Personal relationships at work

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Line manager briefing looking at the subject of managing romantic or family relationships at work, including disclosure of personal relationships and dealing with unacceptable behaviour and a breakdown of relationships.

• Dismissed because married to the MD

  Date:

  1 December 1999

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employee who agreed severance terms following the takeover of a cleaning contract on which was employed, was in effect dismissed because she was married to the managing director of the firm which had lost the contract, and was therefore unlawfully discriminated against, holds an Ashford employment tribunal (Chair: D E de Saxe) in Smith v ISS Servisystem Ltd.