Social media | Employee sacked for sharing Billy Connolly sketch on Facebook

An Asda employee has been sacked after breaching the company’s social media policy by posting an ‘anti-religion’ sketch by comedian Billy Connolly on Facebook.

The disabled employee was let go after a colleague complained that the sketch was anti-Islamic.

After the complaint, he deleted the post and wrote an apology to bosses and colleagues, multiple outlets reported.

He has since taken to Facebook, writing: “Unfortunately, I have today been dismissed from Asda. Some of my colleagues took offence to the Billy Connelly, (sic), thoughts on religion, that I posted early May.