My Overemployment Story
To take the Machiavellian view, if you want to be nice, be nice to your wife and your kids.  But not at work.<p>Companies always look out for themselves.  I have sympathy here for the OE who is simply looking out for themselves.<p>IANAL - most definitely not - but it seems to me there is no crime here.  Breach of contract, sure, absolutely - unarguable.  Consequences - dismissal and no reference.  But crime?  Many employment contracts say 40 hours, any hours these days.  Mine does.  Show me a tech worker whose contract says they stop work at 5.30?  That would preclude on-call, overtime, etc.  So it&#x27;s possibly a defence, should it be needed, that the OE is available for 40 hours a week, and not his fault that all 40 hours aren&#x27;t needed, so he interleaves this with responsibilities for another employer.  There are, after all, more than 40 hours in a week.