off-duty blogging

High school office assistant by day, porn video star by night – should there be ramifications?

April 1, 2011 Christina Catenacci Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Privacy and Security

A Quebec school board has suspended a high school office assistant with pay after discovering she also happened to be a porn video star on the side. How did the school board find out about her extra-curricular activity? A student found out her secret and posted it on Facebook, and almost instantly, she was a high school celebrity.

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