The shift to remote work has opened the door to new opportunities – not least of which is the ability to juggle a side hustle or even a second full-time job.of white-collar professionals pulling in nearly $600,000 a year, paying off hefty student loans or building a nest egg for their kids’ education?from ResumeBuilder.com backs up these anecdotes. In late 2021, the resume platform polled U.S. workers and found 69 per cent of remote employees were working a second job.
Despite the potential negative impact of working double duty, employers are often hesitant to impose severe consequences. The survey shows that when employees are caught, 32 per cent of employers simply ask them to restrict their side gig activities to after-hours. Only 11 per cent resort to firing an employee.“There’s a spectrum of misconduct, and there’s a lot of law around discipline being proportionate to the misconduct,” she says.
Whether severance is owed depends on several factors, including the employee’s contract, common law considerations and provincial employment standards.