Permission to work side jobs during gov't shutdown

[Anonymous]

It's an Ethics issues. Professionals tend to find work within their field, thus, if you were doing research for the agency, you now found temporary work while on furlough, in a company that does business/collaboration with your agency, then there is a conflict of interest. If you were doing research and now just working at the mall's as a cashier temporarily, than that is no problem.

If you are a nurse, now furlough, and you found nursing work, it maybe ok. You would have to find out who the employer is. That employer/supervisor cannot have any affiliation with your fed agency/position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's an Ethics issues. Professionals tend to find work within their field, thus, if you were doing research for the agency, you now found temporary work while on furlough, in a company that does business/collaboration with your agency, then there is a conflict of interest. If you were doing research and now just working at the mall's as a cashier temporarily, than that is no problem.

If you are a nurse, now furlough, and you found nursing work, it maybe ok. You would have to find out who the employer is. That employer/supervisor cannot have any affiliation with your fed agency/position.

Most nurses go to hospitals for shift work and rarely are the hospitals affiliated with government agencies directly. The exception would be in a research department that may have an ongoing collaborative research study with the nurse's government agency department. Otherwise, it's not a problem. NIH nurses pick up extra work all the time in hospitals for extra money.