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Prakash Tiwari (MD)     30 November 2017

Affair with office collegue

Hi All,

Can an employee/s be terminated on the grounds that they have affair with their office collegues?

Can this be a ground if we want to terminate employees?

Can any provide a draft so that I can circulate to my employee to refrain from getting into such activities during office hours. If found will be terminated

 



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Vijay Raj Mahajan (Advocate)     30 November 2017

No merely this is no ground for terminating the services of employees if they have affairs with other office colleagues unless their personal activity badly affects the ultimate result for which they are employed.

Everyone has personal life and he/she cannot be stopped from entering in any relationship with his/her co-worker in the same organization.

The privacy in life for all human beings has to be preserved and protected not infringed by others.

The word “affair” is very vaguely used, either define in details what all activities are being prohibited during office hours between anyone having personal affairs or relationship with other colleague than only some meaningful result can be obtained by circulating any notice to employees of the organization.

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Prakash Tiwari (MD)     30 November 2017

thank you......it helped.

 

Kumar Doab (FIN)     30 November 2017

Generically Speaking; NO and there cannot be a circular asking employee(s) not to find another employee lovable or worthy to see companion for life time in him/her.

Kumar Doab (FIN)     30 November 2017

The employees can be expected not to be indulging in anything that is obscene at workplace.

Talking to another employee in office is not obscene.


(Guest)

Ms. Neeti Bajpai,

A very simple question for you to reply that you can give even to yourself, "can you prove affair between the office collegues," merely if found talking with each other?

If you have noticed some aukward or obscene postures of your employees, you will have the very first need to formulate some model discipline code and put include that in to your CSO and/or the CDA Rules for the employees for proposing any penalty, but certainly not termination, if not indulging in to obscene s*xual activities.


(Guest)

Does not seem to be a realistic problem. The experts seem to have rightly advised you.

By the way, if duties, responsibilities and efficiency of the employees are not affected anyway, in what way your organization is concerned with the private affairs of the employees?

 


 


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