American CEO Natalie Dawson, president of Cardone Ventures, has sparked debate after revealing she fired two employees for cheating on their partners. Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, Dawson explained that she immediately terminated the employees upon learning about the infidelity, believing that personal dishonesty reflects professional unreliability.
For her, integrity in personal and professional life is intertwined, and she considers cheating employees a liability to the company culture and environment. While some support her commitment to ethics, others criticize her for blurring private and work boundaries.
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It really depends on the facts, but if you were terminated, you should take a deep look into this one.
Specifically, how did the CEO learn about the infidelity? Was it from an out-of-wedlock pregnancy? If yes, that can constitute sexual harassment under Title VII because only a woman can get pregnant.
Here is another angle: Is this CEO acting on religious grounds and trying to impose her beliefs on her staff? If so, that may constitute religious discrimination. A federal court explained earlier this year:
“The plaintiff must assert that an adverse employment action was taken because of a discriminatory motive based upon the employee’s failure to hold or follow her employer’s religious beliefs.”
— Owens v. City of New York Dep't of Educ., No. 21-2875, 2022 WL 17844279, at *2 (2d Cir. Dec. 22, 2022))." Maas v JTM Provisions Co., Inc., 1:23-CV-00076-JPH, 2025 WL 823671, at *4 [SD Ohio Mar. 13, 2025]
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