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  • You can be sleeping with your employees dude that’s a clear power imbalance dynamic and you would be fired here too for having a relationship with a subordinate.

    Educate yourself.

    https://www.employmentlawreview.co.uk/personal-relationships-at-work-what-does-uk-law-say/

    You can be forced to disclose relationships and sacked if you fail to do so. You cannot be sacked for having a relationship.

    Completely banning personal relationships at work would likely breach an employee’s right to a private life. However, that doesn’t mean employers can’t put measures in place to mitigate risks to the business caused by such relationships. Policies employers may want to consider implementing include:

    Ensuring that employees disclose any workplace relationships they have so that appropriate steps can be taken to minimise risks

    Restricting employees who deal with recruitment from the process if it involves someone they have a personal relationship with

    Potentially changing an employee’s manager if they’re in a relationship with their current one, providing this doesn’t discriminate against them