Moonlight

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Worker shall not take any type of work against interest of employer in addition to his or her job as per legal framework, but the government is not taking up any study on the issue, Parliament was informed on Monday. When a full-time employee of a company takes up an extra job, usually without the employer's knowledge, it is called moonlighting. The issue has been in public discourse especially among IT professionals as some of them reportedly resorted to moonlighting during Covid pandemic. "As per the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946, a workman shall not at any time (type of) work against the interest of the industrial establishment in which he is employed and shall not take any employment in addition to his job in the establishment, which may adversely affect the interest of his employer," Minister of State for Labour & Employment Rameshwar Teli said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. Teli was replying to a question that whether the government considers ...

Amid the growing debate on moonlighting, a new report has revealed that 43 per cent of employees in the Indian IT sector find moonlighting favourable

With moonlighting gaining traction in the country, most employees (81 per cent) interviewed said they do not wish to indulge in it and feel that it is unethical, according to a report. Less than one out of five employees (19 per cent) surveyed wants to moonlight while a majority of the workforce (81 per cent) said they do not wish to take up another job alongside their current work and cited it as unethical, according to global site Indeed's quarterly hiring tracker. Most moonlighting situations that may require an employer to develop a moonlighting policy occur when the moonlighting employee has a 'primary' usually full-time position and a 'secondary' or part-time position, it added. This Indeed report is based on a survey by Valuvox among 1,281 employers and 1,533 job seekers and employees between July and September 2022. The survey respondents were segregated into cities and further categorised into large, medium and small organisations and sectors. Moreover, the report reveale

Job search and gig work platforms say these are mostly low-paid assignments

Many employees working from home during the pandemic took up side jobs without the approval of their parent firm

IT firms are increasingly resorting to background verification firms for additional checks on employees for moonlighting, says report

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The concerns from tax authorities have come at a time when there is an ongoing debate on how far 'moonlighting' by employees can be allowed.

Employees will need prior permission; no-tolerance policy will be followed if they hide, he adds

IBM has asked its employees to refrain from engaging in a second job or gig in any capacity and has declared it as against the company contract

IT company Happiest Minds Technologies has said moonlighting is unacceptable as it amounts to violation of job contract and that "few" employees found engaging in such practices have been fired over the last 6-12 months. The company -- which recently logged a stellar 33.7 per cent on year growth in net profit in the second quarter and 31.1 per cent rise in its total income -- had about 4,581 employees as of September 30, 2022. Happiest Minds asserted that moonlighting is not very prevalent within the company but did not divulge the exact number of employees against whom action had been taken on the issue. The issue of moonlighting or dual employment has emerged as a big talking point in the IT industry ever since Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji red-flagged the issue on Twitter, equating it to "cheating". Over the past weeks, several companies have waded into the issue making it clear that they do not approve of dual employment. Put simply, moonlighting or dual employment refers to ..

Forensic companies are checking voice samples to single out employees that are using Zoom for interviews with other companies

"We are trying to bring in some of these elements for a certain section of our employees. We are doing a proof of concept of creating a gig workforce within the company," says Lakkad.

In a Q&A, Debashis Chatterjee, who is also the firm's CEO, talks about the demand environment, merger with LTI and moonlighting

Infosys supports 'gig work' for employees but is against dual employment, has fired people who were moonlighting, CEO Salil Parekh said in a media interaction on Thursday

Both by sacking employees for moonlighting and insisting they turn up to the office daily, employers disregard both productivity and employee morale

India's second largest IT services company Infosys on Thursday made it clear that the company does not support moonlighting and said it has fired employees who were into dual employment over the last 12 months. Infosys, however, did not divulge the exact number of people who were "let go" on account of moonlighting. Last month, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji revealed that some 300 employees were fired as the IT services company had no place for any employee who chose to work directly with rivals while being on Wipro payrolls. Put simply, moonlighting refers to employees taking up side gigs to work on more than one job at a time. On Thursday, during the Q2 earnings' briefing, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said the company does not support dual employment. "We don't support dual employment... if we found... in the past, employee doing blatant work in two specific companies where there is a confidentiality issue, we have let go of them n the last 12 months," Parekh said. Infosys is among t

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