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I live in a right-to-work state. I work for a nonprofit gym chain watching children while their parents work out. The gym does not allow their employees to take outside babysitting jobs with their members (although doing so would not take business away from the gym). They claim it's for the safety of the children, which makes no sense to me. Shouldn't that be between the parent(s) and the potential babysitter, not the gym unless it's on their property during the employee's work hours? I recently had a mother I had met via watching her child at the gym ask me to babysit her child at home for date nights with her husband. I told her I would think about it. Can my employer legally prohibit me from taking this job just because she is a member? Isn't that against right-to-work laws? Are they allowed to tell me what I can and cannot do when I am off the clock?
What the heck does that have to do with this?? Is this a UNION position? Is the gym under a UNION contract? Is your babysitting a UNION position? Are you requiring those who seek your service to be a member of a UNION? Please explain the UNION Membership connection?
What the heck does that have to do with this?? Is this a UNION position? Is the gym under a UNION contract? Is your babysitting a UNION position? Are you requiring those who seek your service to be a member of a UNION? Please explain the UNION Membership connection?
Right to work states have nothing to do with unions. In fact right to work means there are no unions. Please, seek medical attention.
I don't understand why the OP is asking if the employer can prohibit their employees from taking outside work (from clients of the gym).
Why couldn't they prohibit their employees from doing that and other things? Isn't it the right of a business to set their policies and rules as they see fit? The OP signed a contract, didn't they?
What exactly is the issue here? What law is there that says employers are not allowed to set policies on employee conduct?
Their company, their rules, if the OP doesn't like it, then find somewhere else to work.
And folks, let's look at the big picture here. Look at it from the gym's perspective. Let's say in a hypothetical situation, an employee of a gym (in charge of babysitting client's kids in the gym while mama/papa work out) agrees to babysit a client's kids outside of gym hours, at the client's home. And let's say something bad happens, an unfortunate accident, something of that nature, where the children get hurt or worse. Guess what, now the parents can potentially sue the gym. You just never know how people will react these days. And I know it's an extreme scenario, but what if a gym employee was some nasty predator, see where I'm going with this? Any business would be smart to think about these various scenarios and cover themselves.
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