hey anon, sorry for the late reply. Though I don’t have exact statistics because enough research hasn’t been conducted on the matter, it does unfortunately happen quite a lot with businesses concerned with their employees’ lifestyle and how it affects their image [which nowadays is.. most of them]Most people are outed through social media check ups [which are extremely common but also extremely unethical, might I add], and are then either denied jobs or fired for living a [insert-slut-shaming-term-here] lifestyle. Specifically, with the whole orientation vs lifestyle debate, a couple years ago a woman in Australia was specifically fired for, and I quote, being “on a list of “poly-friendly” counsellors published on a website for those who practice non-monogamy. She sued on the grounds she was fired for being polyamorous, but a judge rejected her argument, ruling that having multiple partners didn’t qualify as a sexual orientation.”It is generally legal to do so in most countries I’m aware of, because of the lack of recognition of polyam as an orientation/minority. [That said, I feel obligated to add a disclaimer and that is that not all people who practice consensual non-monogamy are in fact polyamorous by orientation, though they sometimes can suffer similar kinds of discrimination]
