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Updated on: Oct 2022
Infosys allows employees to take up gig jobs
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Infosys allows employees to take up gig jobs

Oct 21, 2022

Professionals moonlighting should leave Karnataka IT Minister

In India, as per the Labour Law, if you are fully employed, you cannot have your own business or eve...

Industry
Oct 19, 2022
Professionals moonlighting should leave Karnataka IT Minister

No Problem with Moonlighting unless contract breached Minister

Most recently, Infosys has fired a few employees in recent months for moonlighting. However, the exa...

Industry
Oct 15, 2022
No Problem with Moonlighting unless contract breached Minister

Infosys layoffs employees for moonlighting

An Indian multinational information technology company, Infosys has fired a few employees in recent ...

Layoffs
Oct 14, 2022
Infosys layoffs employees for moonlighting
HCLTech disapproved moonlighting, continues to add people in Q2
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HCLTech disapproved moonlighting, continues to add people in Q2

A global technology company, HCLTech has said that it does not approve of dual employment, the issue is not a major one within the company. Ramachandran Sundararajan, Chief People Officer of the company said during the Q2 earnings briefing said, “Dual employment while working for HCL Tech…we do not approve that.” “Everybody who signs up to […]

Oct 13, 2022
Do you know How Wipro caught 300 moonlighters?
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Do you know How Wipro caught 300 moonlighters?

India’s IT services provider company, Wipro has recently laid off 300 employees who were found working with its competitor companies at the same time employment with Wipro. Rajiv Mehta has shared a tweet saying, “#Wipro employees sacked as they took advantage of work from home and worked parallelly with another company. How #Digital #India has precisely […]

Oct 12, 2022
TCS elucidated its stand on Moonlighting
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TCS elucidated its stand on Moonlighting

Yesterday, India’s largest IT services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced its second-quarter results ending on September 30, 2022. The company added 9,840 employees in the September quarter and the total headcount stood at 6,16,171. TCS hired 20,000 freshers in Q2, an increase of 33% over the previous quarter. However, freshers hiring have slowed down. […]

Oct 11, 2022
Hyderabad IT companies worry about moonlighting, running checks
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Hyderabad IT companies worry about moonlighting, running checks

The Hyderabad IT companies are checking the employees in case of dual employment. However, this is taking a hard issue. The companies are running a dual employment check on employees on EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation) website. Some companies have put their legal department on the job to redraft appointment letters. A US-based IT services […]

Sep 29, 2022
Can Moonlighting Be Allowed?- Global HR Experts’ Perspective
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Can Moonlighting Be Allowed?- Global HR Experts’ Perspective

The issue of moonlighting by tech professionals has ignited a fresh debate, polarising opinions and raising thorny questions like; what are the reasons for Moonlighting? Is it a legal issue/ethical issue/HR issue/social issue? Moonlighting refers to employees taking up side gigs to work on more than one job at a time. It can be defined as working […]

Sep 27, 2022
Moonlighting gets government support
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Moonlighting gets government support

Commenting on the controversial issue of Moonlighting, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT and Skill Development Rajeev Chandrashekhar said, “Companies that try to prevent employees from working on their own startups or consulting for other firms is a doomed-to-fail exercise.” On September 23, while addressing an event of the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), the Minister […]

Sep 25, 2022
Working for 2 firms at same time is against trust, Infosys Ex- CEO
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Working for 2 firms at same time is against trust, Infosys Ex- CEO

Earlier, India’s second-largest IT services provider, Infosys said that moonlighting is not permitted according to the employees’ code of conduct of the company. Infosys describes this with the taglines ‘No two-timing, no moonlighting’ and ‘No double lives’. Infosys has sent an internal communication email to employees. Moonlighting is a kind of practice when someone is taking up a […]

Sep 22, 2022
TCS calls moonlighting an ethical issue, Tech Mahindra encourages
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TCS calls moonlighting an ethical issue, Tech Mahindra encourages

Moonlighting is a kind of practice when someone is taking up a second job during or outside the normal business hours of primary employment. However, in India, as per the Labour Law, if you are fully employed, you cannot have your own business or even work elsewhere. Most private organizations also have policies that prohibit moonlighting […]

Sep 17, 2022
Infosys warns employees: ‘No two-timing’, no double lives
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Infosys warns employees: ‘No two-timing’, no double lives

India’s second-largest IT services provider, Infosys has said that moonlighting is not permitted according to the employees’ code of conduct of the company. Infosys said that employees cannot take up other assignments during or outside business hours. The company has also added that any violation will lead to disciplinary action that could include termination of […]

Sep 13, 2022