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  Firing employees for behaviour outside the office: What do HR policies and the law say? Recent incidents have proved that professional lives are impacted by the choices made in personal lives. This points to a larger resetting of the HR rulebook, which employees must keep in mind.   ABHISHEK SAHU   FEBRUARY 16, 2023  / 11:38 AM IST Law experts say a company’s ‘Code of Conduct’ and ‘Code of Ethics’ are embedded in the terms of employment and employees themselves agree to follow the same through their journey with it. American financial services company Wells Fargo recently sacked Shankar Mishra, its India Vice-President, after he allegedly urinated on a woman on an Air India flight. Max Life Insurance fired its deputy manager Manish Khattar, while PR firm Media Mantra gave Kamaljeet Kaur marching orders after both were arrested for allegedly torturing and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who worked for them as a domestic help. These incidents show that people’...

A Detailed Deliberation on Moonlighting Moonlighting is undoubtedly the new hot topic that has got everybody talking, so here's a detailed legal deliberation on it. Published on https://www.thinkbridge.com/blog-post/a-deliberation-on-moonlighting August 30, 2024 Ankit, a CA by profession resides in the capital city of Delhi, and he works for one of the Big Four accounting firms. While he earns a seven-figure salary, he still decided to take up a side gig because well we all want more and more! So for the past year, he has been slyly rendering his consultancy services and his clientele has increased steadily, but his employers have no idea about this. Ankit feels that there's no harm in making that extra income as he does his private consultancy work on weekends, whereas on weekdays, he ensures to put his best foot forward in his regular job. And well this is where the new white-collar evil moonlighting seeps into the picture but is it really an evil? To understand t...