CEO suspected of adultery at Coldplay concert: Can you get fired in France for an affair at work?

From internet memes to a thorny legal debate. Since its outbreak, "ColdplayGate" has continued to surprise us. Andy Byron, the American CEO accused of infidelity, finally resigned on Saturday, July 19. His exit through the back door was eagerly accepted by the board of directors of his company, Astronomer.

Filmed by surprise during a concert, the man had appeared the previous week in an embrace with one of his employees... who wasn't his wife. A handful of seconds that went viral and, in the space of a few days, turned his life upside down. Today, they also raise a delicate question of labor law: can fickle employees and managers be dismissed in this way in France?

If dismissal were automatic, it is clear that open spaces, factories and construction sites