Phillip Schofield steps down from ITV after affair with "much younger male"

Work colleagues in this situation of significant age difference, where the older party has been a patron in the sector to the younger party and in contact since the age of 15???

Really?

You know many "colleagues" where it played out like that?

These weren't just "colleagues" were they. They weren't peers, or independent of each other's work who happen to be in same company. One appears to have played a very significant role in getting the other hired and boosting their career.

You continually downplay this aspect with your language.

So sure, keep up the strawmanning.

I posted it more to show how the media narrative is developing wrt This Morning.

With someone known from when they were 15 years old that they played a role in getting hired?

You're just making stuff up now.

And when it does occur, the issue is in sorting out the genuine cases from those where is a power imbalance and element of coercion \ abuse.

Which is why there are professional codes of conduct, rules about affairs between direct line reports etc and the potential for abuse and harrassment in such relationships is why they are seen in a different light in 2023 than say 1963 or 1983.

What I actually wrote was:

 I said similar to. I did not say exactly like eg Harvey Weinstein.

You seem to have trouble understanding what similar means, and now have to resort to quoting sections out of context.

Once again you are unable to refute or engage with the points made.

The general point of concern is about creating opportunities for possible sexual exploitation through power imbalance, where someone feels their career is being assisted because of sexual relationship. This is why professional codes of conduct are important.

Harvey Weinstein's actions are part of the reason why such power imbalances are viewed rightly with suspicion.

That doesn't mean all such relationships are of the same nature as Weinstein, or that what happened with Schofield was of the same order BUT it means the difficulty in determining that means the safest course to protect both parties is for them to be forbidden.

You mean Holmes who can't decide whether ITV is the most woke channel on the planet or the most toxic?

Did the affair go to external independent review?

Well no this is what i replied to.

It was you that subsequently suggested similar to Weinstein.

 BUT it means the difficulty in determining that means the safest course to protect both parties is for them to be forbidden

LaLa land, colleagues are going to fúck each forever.

Strawman of that violent rapist is not going to change that reality.

And these documents have stopped people fúcking each from work have they?

I can't Mary, Anne from HR has a document that "forbids" it.

😂

You are the one who claims they don't, and have zero effect - completely without evidence.

Nobody said they stop it happening 100% but if you think it hasn't prevented instances of 'fraternisation' whatsoever, take it up with the experts who do.

I know which side is more credible.

Documents stop rapists raping?

We should just get rid of laws and have documents.

Epic strawman.

I don't know which industry or where you work in but in Ireland Employment law is quite stringent. There is no such thing as "unwritten policy".

If an employer invents a reason to fire someone, than that employer will probably find themselves in the WRC.

If someone rapes, sexual assaults or commits criminal coercion they will find themselves in front of the courts.

Just likes this absolute díckhead.

Times have changed and have changed for the better.

Making the workplace a weird dystopian grey floor where humanity doesn't exist is not just unworkable it's grim.

His brother is not a paedophile. The “child” in question was over the age of 16. I’m not defending him, just being strict on the labeling here.

Paedophilia is quite a clear definition, and age is not the only criteria involved.

Im always amazed how quick people can be to label a person a paedohile based off the use of the word, “child” in reports.