Opinion: Robust views are welcome. But not when they undermine your employer
, over his disrespectful and homophobic comments made off-air, is just the latest in a string of cases involving employees who have lost their jobs because of things they have said or done outside of work.
Former Fox journalist Tom Morris has been sacked for disparaging and personal comments he made on social media about a colleague.Unlike Tom Morris, Corry remained unrepentant. When the matter was heard in the Fair Work Commission he was not reinstated to his job, nor did he receive any compensation for his dismissal. The ACTU was found to have had a valid reason for dismissing him.
As a Fair Work Commissioner said in a case involving a truck driver some years ago, unlike conversations in a pub, social media posts leave a permanent written record of the insults, and they have a tendency to go viral. Occasionally, a worker who has been caught out will manage to persuade the commission to reinstate or compensate them for the loss of their job, but generally, they will need to show a high level of contrition for their conduct.
Folau’s sacking has had significant repercussions, in the form of a long-running and still unresolved debate over whether we need awhich contains special provisions protecting the jobs of people who make offensive statements, so long as their statements were based on a religious belief. To some extent, our laws already purport to protect the expression of religious and political views.
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