[Magmatic]

So there's a very practical problem I have with this. Say you maintain a blog promoting the disenfranchisement of women, things like "We need to send women back to the homes, barefoot in the kitchen." While reprehensible, perfectly legal.

Your employer is faced with both an external and internal problem.

1) The more public your views, the more people see these views as condoned by the company as being acceptable, whether you agree with that the perception is likely. Even if protection is afforded under the law it's widely understood that you can "manage out" problem employees and people will judge the company for not doing that.

2) The employee is likely hampering their own effectiveness in the workplace substantially. In this example it's going to be very difficult to get women, a huge chunk of a likely workforce, to work effectively with the person in question. The company cannot realistically resolve the feelings of enmity that arise from this kind of speech and the best remedy to the situation is going to be empoyee termination.

[mc32]

This complicated but I would defer to their output. While at work, are they performing their duties. Is she othewise behaving within expected bounds while on company time? What she does on her own time is her own business, if she can keep her personae separate and not commingle them, either as a private citizen or as a rep of her company.