Danny Baker | Can you be fired for conduct outside work?

It’s a tricky debate – can an employee be fired for something they do outside of the workplace? When it comes to recent news, it seems they can.

Earlier this week, BBC Radio 5 Live host Danny Baker was sacked by the BBC after he posted a ‘racist’ royal baby tweet. He shared an image online of a couple with a monkey and tagged it ‘Royal baby leaves hospital’ to his 504,000 followers.

The image caused an uproar among the media and prompted the studio to remove Baker from his post as a host of the radio show.

The 61-year-old claimed that he would often use this image when any posh people have a baby, reports The Daily Mail, and quickly deleted the image describing it as a ‘stupid thinking gag’.