Marriage at work and changing job roles

mikemac

Supposing a couple meet in work and a few years later get married, ah bless

Now one of these is a manager and the other reports directly to them.
Now the manager has a fair bit of power, would check all their competed work, sign their appraisals and if an internal promotion came up in the department they'd be involved in interviews and selection.

So now the couple are married and HR state that the juniour staff has to switch managers and if necessary go to another department.
Employee says no, I signed a contract for the position and if you are saying there is no job for me, make me redundant.
Maybe the alternative departments have feck all promotion possiblities, after all the person transferring in would have to learn everything and be way behind.


So I'm asking is if you sign a contract and join a company for a specific role, can they force you to leave your role if you get married to your direct manager?

I've not seen it in a contract but it's seems to be the done thing in places I've worked, it's just accepted...

Victor

I think an enterprise is reasonably entitled to protect itself, both from fraud and inappropriate behaviour, so it might be reasonable for itto ask one or other to move.

sceptre

It's annoying but it seems entirely reasonable for the company to request that. It's a conflict of interest that's developed since the contract was signed, a transfer request should be reasonable on that basis.

Also any couple who want to maintain their sanities should think of it as a good idea anyway.

GerardKeating

mikemac wrote: »

Maybe the alternative departments have feck all promotion possiblities, after all the person transferring in would have to learn everything and be way behind.

That's simple to solve, the senior partner could/should be banned from promoting the partner due to a colflict of interest.

Our man in Havana

I have worked in jobs were any relationship such as dating required one of the persons to move departments.