Wipro Fires 300 Employees For Moonlighting: Here's How Companies Catch Such Acts

Moonlighting is the practice where an individual takes up a secondary job while being on the payroll of a company.

The recent debate around moonlighting, in the IT sector, has raised several questions about the practice. 

The discussion was fuelled when IT major Wipro fired around 300 of its employees for moonlighting. Wipro chairman Rishad Premji had said at an event that the company had discovered 300 of its employees who were working directly for one of Wipro's competitors. He had further said that the services of those employees had been terminated.

Now, following Wipro's action that has come as a shock to many tech professionals, let us look at how the firm could have caught its moonlighting employees.

According to C Sunil, CEO of Team Lease Digital, employees having dual employment can be caught through their PF account. He added that if an employee uses the same IT tool for both jobs then the company can find out about it through HR intelligence, reported The Hindu BusinessLine.