In light of the allegation against Mayor Eric Johnson, the City Council should adopt clear rules on workplace dating.
An interior view of Dallas City Hall’s atrium photographed from the 7th floor in downtown Dallas on Dec. 16, 2022.Recent events have raised troubling questions about Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson’s conduct while in office. An allegation surfaced in court during the mayor’s divorce proceedings that he had an affair with a city staffer.
We expect that a similar allegation against a high-ranking officer at a private company would trigger a human resources investigation. Given Johnson’s position of power at City Hall, the City Council would have been well within its rights to call for an investigation to determine whether there was a romantic relationship.
Nothing in those two policies can be discerned as a clear standard of conduct that can be applied with consistency to intra-office relationships at City Hall. Dallas shouldn’t let individual employees or council members be the judge of what office relationships are acceptable. Some employers prohibit colleagues from dating while others require disclosures to HR. But dating between employees and their managers or people in a reporting relationship is universally frowned upon for obvious reasons. These romances can create perceptions of preferential treatment or leave the partner in the subordinate role vulnerable to retaliation if the relationship turns sour.
Having allegations about the mayor swirling around City Hall is bad enough. Even worse is the city’s silence on intimate relationships between people with an imbalance of power in the workplace, giving a cover of ambiguity to situations that are plainly problematic. The City Council should amend the city’s personnel rules and code of ethics to put in guardrails to protect city employees..
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