Moonlight

Chandra Grahan 2024: When and where to watch Lunar Eclipse in India?

On September 18, 2024, there will be a lunar eclipse, known as Chandra Grahan, which can be seen in five continents. But since the Moon will be behind the horizon, India can't witness the event

Perseid meteor shower 2024: When, where and how to watch "shooting stars"

The Perseid meteor shower will peak across the United States on August 11 and 12 this year. On peak display, skywatchers could see up to 100 meteors each hour

Strawberry Moon 2024: Everything you need to know about June full moon

According to Bob Bonadurer, director of the planetarium at the Milwaukee Public Museum, the strawberry moon is the most colorful of the year because it travels low and shallow path across the sky

Doing a second job? You may be under I-T department's lens for moonlighting

In the first phase, I-T department has sent notices to people with an average undeclared payment between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh

Tata Power, Amazon India's most attractive employers in 2023: Randstad

Last year, the list was topped by Microsoft, followed by Mercedes-Benz and Amazon

Black Moon in May 2023: All you may need to know about its occurrence

According to the calendar month definition, the next Black Moon will occur on December 30, 2024. But as per the seasonal definition of the term, this year's Black Moon will occur today

2022: When the pendulum moved from great resignation to great return

The controls are back with employers, and WFO with a degree of flexibility is the office-way for now

Worker should not moonlight; govt not conducting any study: Labour Min

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 ...

43% Indian IT employees find moonlighting favourable, says report

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

As moonlighting gains traction, most employees feel it is unethical: Report

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

Moonlighting: People continue to seek side gigs amid demand for tech skills

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

Tech Mahindra to come out with moonlighting policy this month: Report

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

Background checks and more: How IT companies are detecting moonlighting

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

Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse on November 8; here's all you need to know

Commonly known as the Blood Moon, a total lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon moves into the deep umbral shadow of the Earth and receives light only first filtered by Earth's atmosphere

Tax authorities want IT professionals to declare income from 'moonlighting'

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.

Tech Mahindra working on a policy to allow moonlighting: C P Gurnani

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

Moonlighting is a conflict of interest, says IBM to its employees

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

Moonlighting unacceptable, action taken against few: Happiest Minds

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 ..

India Inc hiring forensic companies to weed out moonlighters: Report

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

Talent Cloud will address moonlighting, says TCS CHRO Milind Lakkad

"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.