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There's nothing illegal about this, although Hacker News for some reason has the peculiar belief that there is. Any contract purporting to prevent an employee
by karma_pharmer 3y ago
There's nothing illegal about this, although Hacker News for some reason has the peculiar belief that there is.
Any contract purporting to prevent an employee from earning money elsewhere is an illegal restraint of trade. Indeed the company would be the criminal if they tried to write this into their employment agreements.
- feoren 3y agoThis is a common kind of belief among rational people about how the world should work, based on a casual reading of early law. In general they fail to take into account the fact that there has been decades+ of many smart and awful people chipping away at these laws with exceptions and loopholes until they effectively apply nowhere anymore. For instance, the idea of "exempt" employees was originally only for executive-level people, but now just applies to everyone with an office job. The law is what the modern courts say it is, not what we wanted it to be 100 years ago.
- karma_pharmer 3y agoSource? "Exempt employee" has to do with overtime, not moonlighting. It's not relevant to this discussion.