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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.

FY23 will likely be double digit on revenue...and profitable: Mindtree MD

In a Q&A, Debashis Chatterjee, who is also the firm's CEO, talks about the demand environment, merger with LTI and moonlighting

Infosys runs 'Accelerate' to avert moonlighting, says it supports learning

Infosys supports 'gig work' for employees but is against dual employment, has fired people who were moonlighting, CEO Salil Parekh said in a media interaction on Thursday

Moonlighting: Why service companies are missing the wood for the trees

Both by sacking employees for moonlighting and insisting they turn up to the office daily, employers disregard both productivity and employee morale

Infosys does not support dual employment; have fired violators: Parekh

India's second largest IT services company Infosys on Thursday made it clear that the company does not support moonlighting and said it has fired employees who were into dual employment over the last 12 months. Infosys, however, did not divulge the exact number of people who were "let go" on account of moonlighting. Last month, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji revealed that some 300 employees were fired as the IT services company had no place for any employee who chose to work directly with rivals while being on Wipro payrolls. Put simply, moonlighting refers to employees taking up side gigs to work on more than one job at a time. On Thursday, during the Q2 earnings' briefing, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said the company does not support dual employment. "We don't support dual employment... if we found... in the past, employee doing blatant work in two specific companies where there is a confidentiality issue, we have let go of them n the last 12 months," Parekh said. Infosys is among t

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The glare on moonlighting: It needs creative solutions

The underlying principle of using carrot rather than sticks may work better in tackling a problem that the IT biggies cannot wish away

A viral tweet explains how Wipro caught its employees moonlighting

Taking a tough stand against those involved in moonlighting, IT services giant Wipro sacked 300 employees in September; here's how they caught the moonlighters

Top Headlines: TCS on moonlighting, licensing of digital apps, and more

TCS said moonlighting is an "ethical issue" and against its core values but has not taken any action against any staff

TCS says moonlighting 'ethical issue'; no action taken against any staff

The country's largest IT services exporter TCS on Monday said moonlighting is an "ethical issue" and against its core values but has not taken any action against any staff. The company, which employs over 6.16 lakh people, will take into account all the relevant dimensions while forming its final view on the issue which has been dominating headlines for the last few weeks, its Chief Human Resources Officer Milind Lakkad told reporters. "Moonlighting we believe is an ethical issue and it is against our core values and culture," Lakkad said. The company's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Rajesh Gopinathan said that an employee is barred from working for any other organisation as part of the service contract. Lakkad said that unlike peers like Wipro, which announced a sacking of over 300 employees recently, TCS has not taken any action against any employee. He said that TCS has a long term commitment towards its employees and the employees also have a "reciprocal ...

India Inc seeks help from law firms to address moonlighting: Report

The companies want law firms to redraft employment agreements, find loopholes and enforce restrictions to address the issue of moonlighting

Firms should not pin down staff: MoS IT Chandrasekhar on moonlighting

He added the days when employees signed up with big tech majors and spent their lives on the job were long gone

Moonlighting: No blanket ban in India though several laws frown upon it

The Factories Act is one such, but its provisions don't apply to firms that don't run a factory; many states have their own laws on the matter

Nasscom on Moonlighting: We need to reimagine employee engagement models

Moonlight the concept of having two jobs has come under fire as companies pointed out that this is unethical and short of cheating

Moonlighters beware: Companies may start using digital tools to track them

Nasscom calls for firms to re-imagine engagement models

Moonlighting gets 300 employees at Wipro the pink slip: Rishad Premji

Rishad Premji says moonlighting is a 'complete violation of integrity in its deepest form'

Top headlines: DGCA extends curbs on SpiceJet; Wipro fires 300 employees

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the national logistics policy, which aims at reducing transportation cost and improve global performance of the sector.