The whole “bringing into disrepute” argument seems flimsy. It was the Sun who brought them into disrepute. If that story turns out to be defamatory and false, could the BBC claim Huw brought the BBC into disrepute?
If for example Huw had either a consensual relationship with another adult or he went on an app and bought legal photos, is having your privacy taken away and be made into tabloid fodder legitimate grounds for bringing your employer into disrepute?
Paging Harbottle & Lewis for advise, please.
It has kind of interesting ramifications beyond that too, because lots of people do non-vanilla stuff, have affairs, do onlyfans, are activists or protestors or might have unconventional lifestyles. I wonder at what point can an employer really take ownership of that?
And how could you even appropriately raise it with the management?
Like ‘I like dressing up as a hamster on the weekend and livestreaming it btw, is it still okay to lead the Accounts department?’
I read an interesting Reddit thread by a former sex worker who said that some of the weirdest stuff related to ‘pillars of the community’- hospital consultants, doctors…it sounded like if we start to demand perfectly conventional behaviour off-duty there might not be many left!
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