Anyone good with employment law?

[Donald]

This thread is bait surely

The company doesn't have a vendetta against your partner.

if you offer someone an interview can you hire someone else and justify not giving someone an interview because it was not convenient for the company to wait a few days till my partner was back at work?

Yes. The company exists to make money not play friendsies. Entirely justified IMO.

[mercutio]

unless of course its a case of nepatism