Is moonlighting an offense against Ten Commandments?
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The Ten Commandments, if anything, would be against your employer, they're stealing your time and money by having you on the clock when you're effectively off.
Does your employer respect Holy Days of Obligation for Catholics? The whole notion of the Obligation was that it was obligatory for employers to give employees the day off (not obligatory for Catholics to attend Mass, although that is the case) - no citation for that, it was something explained at a Catholic Mass in the 2000's in a small town in Wisconsin that stuck with me -.
The obligation to respect authorities commonly falls under the 4th commandment and is explained by St. Peter "Honor all Men, Fear God, Love the Brotherhood, Honor the King". And usually, in examination of consciences, this obligation falls both way - the authorities have to respect you; the employer has to respect you.
Basically, if you're working for an unjust organization (like you're apparently painting the entire Indian government) who does not compensate justly and also prevents its employees from gaining compensation for their activities outside of regular employment, then moonlighting might be considered an act of civil disobedience, and laudable, so long as no one is no one is hurt. Because as Dr. Martin Luther King quoted St. Thomas Aquinas from the Birmingham jail, "an unjust law is no law at all"
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None of the Ten Commandments deals with specifically with moonlighting. However the employee might be in violation of the commandments against stealing, bearing false witness and coveting.
Regarding stealing a Catholic site says the following, and Protestant authorities generally agree:
- Thou Shalt Not Steal
forbids theft... not paying just wages; bribery; graft; cheating; fraud... not giving an honest day's work for wages received; breach of contract.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
Commands truthfulness; forbids lying...
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods
This may or may not be involved in the motivation for moonlighting.
Conclusion: if the employee entered into a contract with the employer specifying no moonlighting, then the commandment against false witness would apply, as would the commandment against stealing, since it is understood to forbid fraud and breach of contract. On the other hand, not paying just wages is also a type of stealing, and this may be a mitigating factor.
Upvote:5
When you take the job you agree to these terms in exchange for money.
If you fail to fulfill the terms yet take the money, you are stealing.
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