OH had an affair with a member of staff. Can he fire her?

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My OH recently had an affair with a member of staff ie someone he employed. She works in a very close environment where they can’t easily escape each other. What can be done, legally? I’m in pieces every time he leaves for work. Can he sack her? Could I dismiss her if I became a director?

Very dodgy legal ground if she is dismissed. It can be done but only if she'll play ball and he's willing to fork out a sizeable amount.

Poor woman.

This is going to end well.

It's not illegal to cheat. People do it everyday so there's no 'legal' way around it
Dump him, you aren't even married and are acting like it's the end of the world. Find someone who doesn't cheat!

This has got to be a wind up surely??

Why haven't you fired him from your marriage?!

I disagree with part of this. It's a claim of any protected characteristic discrimination, including sex. I expect it's very likely to be indirect discrimination.

Does he own the company?

Is he a GP?

Agree that an indirect discrimination claim would very likely succeed.

I get the feeling OP won't be back...

I’m presuming he doesn’t want to just find a new job because he owns the company? Unless the company is large, it will probably take its entire value to pay damages if she is sacked, so he might as well just quit now.

Aw poor guy is in a mess now that his wife doesn't want him working with his bit on the side. Well sorry but tough tits, he should've thought about that before cheating with an employee.

What mess? I think OP is not married, due to the way she refers to the man.

Your husband fucked one of his employees and you want her sacked. It's him that could easily get sacked for abuse of power. She's not the villain in this. You must surely know that.
And of course you can't become a director in order to sack her. Unless you want a law suit.

Are relationships with colleagues mentioned in the contract?

Only because I would imagine boss having affair with someone he employs could be gross misconduct in some industries and maybe it should be him who loses his job.

Either way I think you should be more focused on getting him out of your life than getting her out of his.

Bloody hell op, seriously??

It sounds like it is his company so he won't be fired despite his unprofessional behaviour and abuse of power.

However, if he further abuses his power and fires the woman in order to appease the OP, he will no doubt face financial consequences. I imagine she'll take him to the cleaners.

I worked somewhere where my boss got the sack for having an affair with a woman who reported to him.

He was in a position to affect her pay rise/bonus amount, promotion requests etc. and hadn’t informed HR of the conflict.

The woman stayed working there for several years after he had to leave.

Depends, if she has been there for less than 2 years I'd imagine she could be gotten rid of very easily.

Doesn't really solve the problem though.

Yeah
you’re trying to get rid of the wrong person

person in position of power shags employee then sacks her

I can smell a settlement!

You could legally dump him.

He could just find someone else to shove his cock in so I'm not sure firing her world solve the problem completely. Just bin him off and go and be happy.