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She says there needs to be more attention given to the low pay of education assistants and there needs to be less stigma around sex work. She doesn't regret speaking out.

"I feel strongly that in this day and age, we should be able to do what we want as long as it's not illegal," MacDonald said. "I'm not hurting anybody."

Good for her.

She essentially was fetishizing her job online for money. I can definitely see that getting into some areas that would result in violating some sort of employment policy they agreed to.

I think this does open them up to a wrongful termination suit. But I also highly suspect the employment agreement listed something vague about 'a public image that positively reflects on the employer' or some shit like that. It almost always does for teachers and other workers in schools. Might not hold up in court, but I bet it was in the employment agreement in some form.

"The view we take is, there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code."

• Minister Trudeau ....... in 1967

Good analysis and I tend to agree. There are certainly lines she could cross, but based on the information given it doesn't seem like she did. To those fearing children can be exposed to this, I say, we all know what OnlyFans is by now. There's a lot of talk going on about letting parents parent, well, here's your chance.

I agree, and your comment is spot on to what i was thinking as i read the article

Education assistant, but yea same thought applies.

There was a college professor that got fired when students noticed a pornhub bookmark to "college girl bangs her professor" on his computer. The college noted that the theme of the video was a big reason for the firing as it made students uncomfortable.

So are you going to go to all the porn sites and complain about this sort of content?

Indeed there is a broader conversation about what amounts to "inappropriate conduct" outside the workplace. Assuming the person isn't doing anything illegal and maintains their work at arm's length, does the employer get to police what they do outside of their working hours?

If a teacher hustling as a sex worker in her free time is grounds for dismissal, would a teacher hiring the services of a sex worker in his free time also be a fireable offense?

Yes and no.

Part of the issue for both is that posting stupid shit non-anonymously on social media does call your judgment into question, especially if you're in a public-facing role and your behaviour be liability to your employer. Say Nazi stuff on Facebook and your employer fires you? Well, that's a life lesson about consequences of your own behaviour.

...and that's also the case here, though OnlyFans allows a modicum of plausible deniability because it requires the viewer to actively and decisively source the content in question. The problem, for the content creator, is that the internet is leaky, and what happens on OnlyFans doesn't stay on OnlyFans.

This is separate from the compensation issue. For sure EAs are paid incredibly poorly, and while there's liability issues, there are larger moral ones about slut-shaming someone trying to make rent through legal means.