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I had an affair at work, and he broke it off and the office forced me out.
I had an affair with a male colleague and he broke it off.
I found out recently that he tried to resign from his job to get away from me, but our employer thought he was too valuable to the business.
When he was asked why he wanted to leave, he confessed that he had had an affair with me, and he no longer wanted anything to do with me.
The employer talked with a lawyer, and reduced my hours so that I was never on the premises at the same time as him.
I was obviously less valued that he was.
I didn't realize this at the time, and continued with my reduced hours until an annual appraisal, where I was basically told I was crap at what I did, and I didn't do a whole lot.
I willingly left the job, only to find out just now, that everyone knew what had happened, and that they all hated me, and were making work unbearable for me until I gave in and quit.
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An eloquent and informed answer there from adviceman. I'd take it. I'm a total legal duffer, but your tale makes me spitting mad. If there's a chance of getting back I'd give it a go.
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You may have an EEOC complaint under the sexual harrasement section of the EEOC laws. You don't have to have been verbally or physically sexually harrassed to be sexually harrassed. It sounds like you were harrassed into leaving because they couldn't fire you for your affair with a coworker who wanted to quit when the affair ended.
You have the choice of contacting a lawyer and discussing your options on bringing an EEOC complaint. Or you can contact your local EEOC office and file a complaint directly with the EEOC. I will warn you that filing a complaint directly with the EEOC does take time to resolve as the have many complaints to handle. Some complaints take years to settle. The difference is that when they investigate your former coworkers are talking to Federal Investigators and not your attorney. Lyeing to a Federal Investigator is in itself a crime.
If you have another job and have time to wait for a settlement I would first speak with the people at the EEOC office to see if they will take the case.
I know you could not be fired for your affair with your coworker if it was not against the rules of the ompany at the time of your employment. So forcing you out was the only alternative other than asking you to leave voluntarilly in an up front manner with some type of servernce package agreed upon. So it is my belief, but I am not a laywer, that you have been wronged.
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I think you definitely made the right move by leaving. That reason is why a lot of companies forbid dating in the office. I'm not sure what rights you would have had for them reducing your hours. A company pretty much can do that for whatever reason. Especially if they felt that he was a more "valued employee" than you. However, you could seek legal advice for it. You won't get unemployment since you quit but it wouldn't hurt to see if they were in the wrong in any way.
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