What better way to end our three-part series on employment law lessons learned from watching Netflix's Selling Sunset than to talk about romantic relationships in the workplace. As always, there are spoilers ahead.

Selling Sunset

If you are new to this series of articles, we are thoughtfully extracting employment law lessons from the fan-favourite reality TV program, Selling Sunset. The show follows some of L.A.'s most successful women realtors, as they compete with the cutthroat L.A. market and each other.

Workplace relationships: Takeaways

Fans will remember that throughout the early seasons of Selling Sunset, viewers were often reminded that Jason Oppenheim and real estate agent Mary Fitzgerald were once in a relationship serious enough to warrant sharing parenting time of two adorable dogs. Early on in the series, we wondered if the true drama of the show would be that these two were working together, despite their previous romance.

While the Jason-and-Mary-drama did not outweigh Christine's contributions (she's getting a lot of air time in our articles, which we think is exactly what she would want), it was a recurring theme on the show for the other agents to question whether Jason was giving Mary preferential treatment in the form of more or better work. Season three, episode four is appropriately titled "Everybody Loves Mary" and in this episode, some of the other agents, Maya, Christine and Heather, question how Mary has received so many highly valued listings...

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