Should moonlighting be legalised in organisations in the backdrop of recession?

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gita76321

Geetha Ravi
Moonlighting is a new concept wherin employees are pursuing with alternative jobs along with their current jobs to make some extra money.
 
This can be a dicey call for the organisations...
legalizing it would mean that they are encouraging the same...this can greatly affect the loyalty factor that the organisation might be enjoying with the employees...
moreover it can also affect the efficiency of the workers..

lets c what others think on this...
 
gita76321 said:
Moonlighting is a new concept wherin employees are pursuing with alternative jobs along with their current jobs to make some extra money.
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good topic gita

I'm of an opinion that yes it should get legalised, especialy wen organizations knows that they canot afford decent or employee expected payments in lieu of wat amount of work they get done from them. its fair on the employees part to look out for alternative avenues, provided it doesnot hamper his productivity and commitment to his company.

any employment wic is Contract basis or free lancing should be allowed in parallell.
 
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I concur with Kalpana, employees should not be restricted from earning in their free time subject to the restrictions regarding confidentiality and not working for a competitor.
 
yes it should be as due to cost reduction co's are looking for compusory lay offs or compulsory leaves to employees and adopting all other forms to keep employees on less working hours and pay them less. so if they get xtra income by working at two places nothing wrong til it doesnt harm the current employer
 
yes, I think it shud be legalised inwake of recession...
With the demand for workers high, the opportunities for employees to moonlight also appear to be growing. A moonlighting policy--to communicate performance expectations, prevent conflicts of interest and protect proprietary information--may make sense for some employers.
 
moonlighting is a kind of dicey concept, but still It will be fine to legalise it in organisations. This will surely help in cost reduction and also the release the pressure on both the employer and employees.
 
vikram chawla said:
This can be a dicey call for the organisations...
legalizing it would mean that they are encouraging the same...this can greatly affect the loyalty factor that the organisation might be enjoying with the employees...
moreover it can also affect the efficiency of the workers..

lets c what others think on this...
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I partially agree with you vikram. Legalising would prove dicey for certain organizations say those related to security. Example - Defense jobs or police jobs or any public service job which require 24hrs duty. So your primary employer may not allow you to go for secondary jobs.

Another imp thing; people mostly do secondary jobs without notifying the employer, which also leads to illegal practices like saving income tax of your secondary jobs.
Thus, i think by legalising it, Govt can make money by taxing them for all jobs that they do.
Loyalty & efficiency is not in really in employer's hand. Depends on individual working.
 
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