A Tennessean newspaper reports that 12 additional employees were also terminated or forced to resign for participating in sexual activity while single.
What We Know:
- Ramsey Solutions is a company founded by the evangelist Dave Ramsey in 1992. Ramsey Solutions was created with the intent to counsel people hurting from the results of financial stress. The company now faces a federal lawsuit, originally filed by former employee Caitlin O’Connor. Ramsey Solutions’ HR Department informed O’Connor in a meeting that she was fired for violating the company’s “righteous living” policy.
- O’Connor was a former administrative assistant who worked at Ramsey Solutions for years before she was fired in June, seemingly because she was pregnant. Dave Ramsey works as a personal financial advisor whose radio show is nationally syndicated and combines conservative Christian themes with financial advice. Ramsey Solutions has admitted that, in total, it has fired eight other individuals in the past for having premarital sex, which includes five men.
- Dave Ramsey remains firm in his belief that he is legally allowed to discharge employees for having premarital sex. The company allegedly clarified to O’Connor that she wasn’t fired for being pregnant but for not being married to the child’s father. The company further defends its actions by stating that O’Connor was aware that the company disapproved of unmarried pregnancies and that she even admitted to her wrongdoing. O’Connor worked for the company for four years and was fired seven days after telling Human Resources that she was pregnant.
- Ramsey Solutions’ attorneys in the federal lawsuit have neglected to provide any other details concerning the company’s process in determining which of its employees engaged in pre-marital or extra-marital sex.
A response from Ramsey himself reads, “we have a moral code of conduct at our office. I fire people if they have extramarital affairs.”
- The company continued to cite this policy in defense that they had not committed a discriminatory based discharge against O’Connor or any of their other employees. O’Connor’s lawyers argue that the firing was in breach of her federal right to take maternity leave and other state laws in Tennessee.
It remains unclear how exactly Dave Ramsey and his company are keeping track of their employee’s sexual history.
