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Which is flat out gross misconduct for 99.9 % of all full time employees in the engineering field.
by walshemj 9y ago
Which is flat out gross misconduct for 99.9 % of all full time employees in the engineering field.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoIs that true? I’ve never had a contract that forbade me to work on side projects for cash.
- walshemj 9y agoOh you mean working in the black economy I am sure the IRA will be interested.
- JauntTrooper 9y agoThere's often a clause in the Employee Handbook you're asked to agree to periodically.
- walshemj 9y agoAnd with Anglo Saxon law it's probably an implied term as there is so much precedent after all we are supposed to be good servants to our masters :-)
- the-pigeon 9y agoThe clause is unenforceable in most (perhaps all) US states.
- pwthornton 9y agoNo one here has a contract that forbids working for other companies in your own time. I haven't seen that in the DC area. Maybe that's a Silicon Valley thing? People might have clauses to prevent people from working on similar work for competitors, sure, but I haven't seen anything that bars working on other kinds of projects outside of work.
- walshemj 9y agoStandard in professional jobs - the US in particular tends to have laws that vastly favor the employers. SV is actually one of the liberal states. Though as you say your a journalist they tend to be exceptions.