Your hypothetical makes zero sense as your questions have simple yes/no answers.

> Even if it's consensual, what happens when she decides she wants to move on from the relationship?

Then they're no longer in a relationship and still have to follow HR/company policies.

>What about her peers that didn't receive promotions while she did?

Did they follow the company policy (e.g., hiring committee recusal) or not for the promotions?

>This is why these laws exist.

Did the company policies follow employment regulations when setting and enforcing their policy?

Well, I guess they should fire her, then.

yall got it backwards. pussy is the power dynamic. men need it, have to have it, totally controlled by it. man not using woman for sex. everyone like sex. woman use pussy power to get promotion

Interestingly, no!

These policies are intentionally narrowed to workplace conflicts of interest. HR doesn't want to manage morality clauses or stuff outside the workplace.

There is zero nuance in a boss sleeping with someone who is a subordinate which is why every company very explicitly forbids it. Companies don't even allow people who are already married to be put in a situation like that.

Once one person has the ability to get the other fired, ruin their career, blackball them from the industry, etc. you can't know if they actually freely consented or not. Once you have coercive control over someone how could you even know that's not why they "consented?" Even if they initiated you can't know if at some point they wanted to stop but now felt they couldn't because of fear of retaliation.

Yes, you can extrapolate, and our society does. This is why ministers aren't supposed to have relationships with their clergy, therapists are not supposed to have relationships with their clients, lawyers, doctors, etc. The list goes on and on.

Can become, yes. Depends a bit on what exactly the nature of the power imbalance is. Which is why there are usually strict rules about relationships with your reports and how to resolve the situation. Like reporting it to HR so the work positions can be shifted in a way to move positions so that there is no longer a reporting relationship between the two.

Exactly. At every place I've worked or consulted at, bosses dating subordinates is not permitted. I have seen multiple instances where people have to move teams/managers because they start a relationship.

These restrictions exist in most workplaces. Boss/subordinate relationships can result in extortion and bad behavior, regardless of which party starts it.

Congrats you just figured out divorce laws and alimony from first principles.

Wow you are mere inches from understanding the concept of sexual harassment. Keep going!

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?

Do you suppose Jensen had a love contract with his subordinate, when the breaking of the news of their extramarital relationship led to a 20% drop in stock and the removal of Jensen as CEO?

Yeah. It’s not like being an ultra chad billionaire with great biceps and confident personality is NOT attractive to women. Maybe her husband wasn’t doing it for her (legit feel bad for that man, whoever he is, today).