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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/council-kiss-and-tell-policy-axed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A local authority has dumped its planned 'kiss and tell' policy" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-council-kiss-and-tell-policy-axed.jpg" alt="A local authority has dumped its planned 'kiss and tell' policy"/></a></p>
<p>A local authority has dumped a proposed &#8220;kiss and tell personnel&#8221; staff policy after criticism from unions.</p>
<p>Personnel bosses at Fenland District Council, based in March, Cambridgeshire, had put forward the scheme, under which &#8220;intimate behaviour during work time&#8221; could have been classed as gross misconduct and resulted in disciplinary action.</p>
<p>But council members unanimously rejected the idea. One councillor labelled the proposal the &#8220;bonk and be booted out&#8221; policy and said it had come from the &#8220;database of daft ideas&#8221;. Another said publicity about the plan had turned the council into a &#8220;laughing stock&#8221;.</p>
<p>Last week a senior official at union Unison said the proposal was &#8220;nonsense out of a Christmas cracker&#8221; and a TUC boss described the idea as an &#8220;Orwellian dictat&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Draft People Policy: Relationships At Work plan was drawn up by Sam Anthony, the council&#8217;s head of human resources and organisational development. It proposed that staff should declare any &#8220;close personal relationship&#8221; with a colleague to their manager &#8220;in writing&#8221;, personnel officials should be told and &#8220;the information declared &#8230; recorded on personal files&#8221;.</p>
<p>Members of the Conservative-controlled council&#8217;s staff committee rejected the plan after Ms Anthony outlined it at a meeting in March.</p>
<p>Councillor Jonathan Farmer called the idea a &#8220;bonk and be booted out&#8221; policy. &#8220;It has come from the database of daft ideas,&#8221; he told the committee. &#8220;This is an example of incredibly bad judgment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Councillor Peter Murphy said: &#8220;This last week, everywhere I have been, everyone has been taking the rise out of me. To the general public this is just a laugh. A total laughing stock.&#8221; Committee members said the policy was unnecessary and they feared it could breach human rights legislation.</p>
<p>Last week, Sarah Veale, the TUC&#8217;s head of employment rights, said the idea was &#8220;unromantic&#8221; and &#8220;Orwellian&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite common for relationships to start in the office but having to declare your feelings via the HR department is hardly the most romantic way to make a move,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Whilst it&#8217;s important for employers to tackle inappropriate behaviour at work, laying down Orwellian diktats about people&#8217;s personal lives will simply generate resentment among staff.&#8221;</p>
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