Kay Burley off air for 6 months

I know she divides opinions, but I think six months is quite harsh

I think you need to look at it in context. Its a different situation between somebody who works in an office and the presenter in question. The latter is one of the public faces of a major news organisation/outlet who's job it is to hammer home the entire "don't do this that and the other" thing to anybody who watches, and said presenters then goes and does the opposite anyway. That makes their position untenable to an extent at least in the short term. The office worker would probably get away with a written warning and assuming they don't infect the entire office that may be the end of the matter for them.

If you're in the public eye, then it could be argued you have more responsibility to behave appropriately outside of work, and if you don't then expect to get dragged over the coals as it were. We've seen this a few times over with various high profile celebrities over the years who have fallen from grace for one reason or another.

>> Kay/GB? <<
Media rumours of 4D chess

Coronavirus conspiracies are ten-a-penny on the internet, but here's one we found quite interesting. There's been a bunch of "Kay Burley's future at Sky News in doubt" stories in the press this last week after she was taken off-air by bosses for breaching Covid rules on her 60th birthday. Why would a seasoned reporter like Kay jeopardise her career over something so foolish? Well, there's some growing whispers that it might not have been quite so stupid after all.

Subject to Ofcom approval, there's a new TV news station due to launch next year. One that's headed up by some old friends of Kay's. Unfortunately for her, she's currently under contract with NBC Comcast. These sorts of contracts, out of necessity, offer very little in the way of wiggle room for employees who want to walk – especially if they're wanting to walk right into the arms of a rival.

Unless she gets let go, of course. In which case, after a certain period (say, six months?) she'd be free to maybe offer her services elsewhere... GB News, perhaps?

Just a small comment – some have said that Burley effectively gets a six month paid holiday. I completely accept that as suspensions go, it’s quite jammy, and I’d dearly love six paid months off work! However, if I put myself in her shoes I also think there’s a level of humiliation there. If I’d something wrong and didn’t come into work for that long, knowing that my colleagues knew exactly why I’d be pretty embarrassed and I’d dread coming back. Add onto that that the wider public also know, that’s not a position I’d like to be in. By the end of the half year I’d be both craving and dreading coming back.

Please don’t misunderstand – I’m not suggesting that makes it a complete horror show for her, nor do I necessarily think she’d have the same take on it. But I did think it was worth mentioning that it’s not quite the same as annual leave.

What result though? Getting Burley sanctioned because they don’t like her?

Didn’t that happen to Richard Keys though someone recorded the feed in the OB gallery and made it to the public, must be people in there recording everything...