I worked for a major company for 13 years. I quit my job so that my fiance' could get a higher paying job at the same company in human resources, because I was a union worker and was told it would be a conflict of interest. I later applied for a company j

You state that you quit to permit your wife to work there. There is nothing wrong with that. However, if you were attempting to circumvent "conflict of interest policies" of the employer how would you attribute that to your wife. Most HR persons lack authority to make those types of policies. However if you applied at a different company and your ex defamed or gave false information to another potential employer then you might have a claim (assuming she did that, you can prove it, and her false information caused your non-hiring.

Your question sounds closer to divorce law where you would request some amount of money from your ex for the sacrifice you made of quitting your union job to permit het to secure a six figure income. Good luck.

posted by V Jonas Urba  |  Feb 12, 2016 10:19 AM [EST]