ccording to Mark Mendl and Jordan Kirkness (When Worlds Collide:Addressing Off-Duty Employee Misconduct):
Many believe that what employees do on their own time should notbe regulated by employers, but the boundary between the workplaceand an employee’s private life is not absolute. As recent highprofile cases have demonstrated, some off-duty misconduct, such ascriminal or morally reprehensible behaviour, may invite disciplineor even dismissal of employees.
It is generally accepted that employers can regulate employees’conduct in the workplace through the promulgationof reasonable rules, policies and procedures. Increasingly,however, employers are facing difficult decisions concerningemployee misconduct that occurs outside theworkplace.
Making reference to the required readings up to thispoint in the course and your own experiences, explain what youbelieve are the appropriate boundaries for the responsibilitiesthat employees have to their employer when not in the workplace. Doyou believe that when not in the workplace, employees have anyresponsibilities to their employer? Does it make a difference ifthe employees are managers?
