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No such thing as consensual when saying no to the boss could result in getting fired.
If you go that route you can extrapolate to some absurd degree. Basically any relationship with a power imbalance becomes sexual harassment.
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How do you reconcile "love contracts" [0]?

[0] https://www.woodsrogers.com/insights/publications/this-valen...

I've never worked at any company that used them or heard about them. Instead we take yearly training saying that even flirting with the idea is a cause for immediate termination.

Do you have stats on how common these are? Is it more popular in some non US country maybe?

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Considering he was fired it's the other way around. This at most only applies to very small companies or to people at the very bottom on the totem pole.
How do you know the boss initiated?
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Everyone loves to jump to this conclusion when I think that should require some heavy evidence.

You could just as easily say she did sexual favors to get a leg-up over more qualified peers and get/maintain her position.

If anything, the fact he got fired seems to imply she has all the power in their relationship being outed. I haven't seen anyone calling for her head.

> could result in getting fired

When did they discover the quid-pro-quo aspect of this particular relationship? The news is moving so fast that I must have missed that part.