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"The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that employers in the state can legally fire workers for being too attractive. The legal precedent came after a court unanimously agreed that a dentist did not violate the Civil Rights Act by terminating an assistant whom his wife considered a threat to their marriage. Emirates 24/7 reports that dentist James Knight testified that he had told Melissa Nelson on several occasions that her clothing was too tight, revealing and &amp;quot;distracting&amp;quot;. However both parties claim that Nelson never flirted with Knight, and Nelson sued for wrongful dismissal arguing that she would not have been fired as a man. In 2009 the pair began exchanging texts, which were initially work-related but became more suggestive, culminaing in Knight asking Nelson how often she had an orgasm. When Knight&amp;#039;s wife found out about the texts she demanded he fire Nelson, calling her a &amp;quot;big threat to our marriage&amp;quot;. The seven justices, all male, argued that the basic question presented by the case was &amp;quot;whether an employee who has not engaged in flirtatious conduct may be lawfully terminated simply because the boss views the employee as an irresistible attraction&amp;quot;. The court then ruled that bosses can fire workers they find too attractive and that such actions do not consitute unlawful discrimination. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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