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Sign in the Name of Love

March 3, 2008
HR Magazine (Vol. 53, No. 2)
By Kathryn Tyler

Can 'love contracts' decrease an employer's litigation risks and keep office romances in check?

Lynn D. Lieber, an employment law attorney and founder and chief executive officer of Workplace Answers, a San Francisco-based provider of legal compliance education via the Internet, tells the story of a company she represented whose president was spending three to six hours with a subordinate behind closed doors. "He would come out with his hair messed up. He ended up promoting her so she worked directly for him. It was horrible for the other people who worked with him," says Lieber, who was forced to confront the president.

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