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00:00 "Will it be necessary to declare to your employer the love affairs you have with a co-worker?"
00:05 This is what this arrest of the court of acquittal of May 29 seems to indicate.
00:09 In the south of France, a factory manager was having a secret love affair with one of his employees.
00:14 However, the latter was a unionist and elected by the staff,
00:17 while he himself was the person in charge of the human resources of the site
00:21 and presided over the social and economic committee as a representative of the management.
00:26 When the workers went on strike and occupied the factory,
00:29 the two lovers found themselves face to face in negotiations.
00:33 He was in charge of defending the company, she represented the employees.
00:37 All without the management being aware of their secret relationship.
00:40 After years, their relationship was discovered.
00:43 The management fired the director or serious fault because of the potential conflict of interest.
00:48 He tried to defend himself, claiming that their relationship had caused no harm and that he had remained neutral.
00:53 But after the hearing and the appeal court,
00:55 the court of acquittal rejected his case by a decision made on May 29.
01:00 So, is it forbidden to have a love affair at work with a colleague?
01:04 Not exactly.
01:05 The court of acquittal has judged that it is the fact of having kept this secret relationship for years
01:09 that justifies the firing.
01:11 The director should have informed his employer of the risk of conflict of interest.
01:15 A lawyer specializing in labor law explains that everyone has the right to respect their private life
01:21 as long as they do not interfere with the obligations related to their work contract.
01:25 The employees' defenders have called this decision "severe"
01:29 and have reminded that the right to the protection of private life is a fundamental freedom.
01:34 [Music]
01:36 [Silence]
01:38 [BLANK_AUDIO]