{"id":201892,"date":"2022-08-25T17:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201892"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:19:42","slug":"explained-what-is-moonlighting-and-if-its-legal-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-moonlighting-and-if-its-legal-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is moonlighting and if it’s legal in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cExplained: What is moonlighting and if it’s legal in India\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> TOI <\/b>in 24th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Swiggy has launched a Moonlighting Policy allowing its employees to work on their passion projects outside of their work (calling it a step towards a \u201cremote-first organization\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Moonlighting?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Moonlighting is the act of working at an extra job beyond regular working hours, usually without the knowledge of the employer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the side job was mostly at nighttime or on weekends, it was referred to as moonlighting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do people moonlight?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Moonlighting is a source of gaining extra profits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, working in a different role can allow a person to develop new skills, explore related domains and connect with more people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many universities abroad consider such side projects as valuable and an applicant who performs in challenging projects alongside their regular 9-5 jobs thus gets an upper hand over others.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the arguments against moonlighting?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Legal but may not be ethical: <\/b>There is no overarching law which prohibits a person from doing multiple jobs. However, a person with a similar nature of jobs may spark breach of confidentiality issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moonlighting <\/span>adversely affects the day job <\/b>and takes the focus off it. There is also a f<\/span>ear of <\/span>leakage of confidential information<\/b> in the primary job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can employees be fired because of moonlighting?<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to legal professionals, courts have in the past permitted employers to terminate employment in case of employers engaging in moonlighting.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also a restriction on double employment under the Factories Act. However, this law is not applicable to IT companies in some states.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained: What is moonlighting and if it’s legal in India\u201d published in TOI in 24th August 2022. What is the News? Swiggy has launched a Moonlighting Policy allowing its employees to work on their passion projects outside of their work (calling it a step towards a \u201cremote-first… Continue reading Explained: What is moonlighting and if it’s legal in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-201892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}