Can You Be Fired for Being 'Irresistible'?
Iowa’s Supreme Court says it is just cause for termination.
In 2010, Iowa dentist James Knight fired Melissa Nelson, his dental assistant of 10 years, because she had become a “detriment” to his family. For the sake of both of their families, they could no longer work together. Knight and his wife, fairly or not, found Nelson to be a threat to their marriage. Though he has said she was the best dental assistant he ever had, he apparently found the nature of their relationship to be a perceived threat to his marriage and feared he would try to have an affair in the future if he did not fire her. In 2009, Knight and Nelson, both married, began exchanging personal texts. The Supreme Court documents outline that though Knight felt Nelson’s clothing was “too tight”, she considered him to be a friend and…
r patton
5:15 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
How do you know what she did or did not do? Were you there? And, I am willing to bet not ALL married men are attracted to you. more ›