How you behave when you’re not at work has an impact, especially in these days of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, according to the Toronto Star. And while your behaviour may not be as questionable as the Quebec teacher who was dismissed after it was discovered she moonlighted as a porn star, conduct outside the office can have negative results.
Employees who believe that their conduct away from the office is immune from discipline are mistaken, says workplace lawyer Daniel Lublin. “Behaviour unrelated to the workplace but which nonetheless injures an employer’s interests can amount to cause for dismissal,” he says.
Take Facebook, for example, the reason for a firing in B.C. when an employee made comments about a supervisor over Facebook. “It was found a justifiable case for dismissal,” Lublin says, “as was the case of the lady who worked in a retirement home who made blog posts of some of the residents, disclosing information about the work.”
The issue is much more prevalent than the stories making the news, he says. because these are the cases making it to trial. “It’s happening all the time; a lot of people are ashamed of it, not challenging their employers….”
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