Can my employer find about moonlighting?

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Can you access the employers policy on substance abuse/ addiction to help you prepare? Did you inform occupational health about your problems? Being able to potentially overturn your sanction will likely be contingent on your disclosure to OH.

Conan1Sett

arctic_ghost said:

Can you access the employers policy on substance abuse/ addiction to help you prepare? Did you inform occupational health about your problems? Being able to potentially overturn your sanction will likely be contingent on your disclosure to OH.

I have my medical record from my GP, a letter from the firm I'm seeing for counseling and hopefully the firm that I have signed up to concerning alcoholism  if they get that to me in time. 

My concern is that the reason for the incident being mental health issues might be thwarted because I didn't seek help for mental health sooner. Instead it slid all the way to my dismissal. The medical record shows evidence that I've been trying to fix the issue without seeking time off work. I plan on stating my fears of mental health stigma as being part of the reason I was too afraid to speak up and instead suffered in silence. 

Conan1Sett

OK so I had my hearing today and I get an answer this week. 

I cited mental health issues as possible mitigating circumstances. I told them that I had signed up for an Alcoholics Anonymous-esque kind of service. I handed over my medical record with the evidence of mental health issues and my letter proving I'm on the waiting list to see a counselor. 

Not sure which way it will go in all honesty. 

RogerBareford

Conan1Sett said:

I currently have 1 employer. My factory job. 

I will be appealing to get my CS job back, but I guess I shouldn't be optimistic as has been suggested. Currently I am not employed by them any longer and I received my last wage slip from them last week. 

If they give me my job back I guess I should ask permission to have the factory job then. 

Unless i'm missing something then how will you be able to have your CS job and also be able to work your factory job which is in a fixed location but yet your CS job means you can't attended counseling appointments? surely it would be more difficult to schedule your factory job around your CS job than counseling appointments.

antonic

TELLIT01 said:

When I worked for the Civil Service you had to get permission to work a second job.  If the OP hasn't told them about the land based job, as seems likely when it's referred to as moon-lighting, they will probably be down the disciplinary route when it is discovered.

You still do (from a current Civil Servant)
Failure to ask (or disclose) you have a second job can lead to a world of pain and possible dismissal