A full time employment contract doesn’t preclude other things which take up significant time such as volunteering, or parenthood. Companies want exclusivity to increase their bargaining position, but they simply fire most of these people rather than sue for damages because it’s difficult to prove any harm.
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/exempt-and-a-non-exempt-empl...
If you work with computers, or are above 100k and any part of the job is executive, administrative, or professional, you're probably not, though.
i now take these unreasonable demands as a sign that the employer wants me to quit.
I don't know if getting a second job wouldn't be fraud in a strict legalistic sense, but it definitely meets the above definition.
Anyway, if you wanna do it, go ahead. I'm not going to risk it myself, but I've worked at plenty of companies which were badly-enough run that I can imagine getting away with this kind of behaviour. I've also worked for employers who treated me like garbage, so I can understand why some people might have no objection to treating their employer like garbage.
If you sign a full-time contract and claim that you are only working a single job, while holding down multiple jobs then you are lying for financial gain.
Like say advertisements.
Say dating.
Say pretty much everything that happens all the time.
The definition of fraud you use is overly general.
1. Length of hours worked per week and work start and end - if you are supposed to be working in times between 8 and 17 with a total of 37.5 hours worked per week if you do a couple 1 hour meetings between 9 and 16 for employer B every day then you have defrauded employer A because it would be impossible for you to make that 37.5 hours between 8 and 17 they are paying you for. You have deceived the company that you are working for them and receiving compensation while working for another company. It's pretty open and shut in legal terms and no but what about lying to a date pontificating is going to change that.
2. Do the contracts with companies have clauses about how they own everything you product technology wise while working for them?
on edit: changed time usage from American to Military Time / European in one instance so all usages were aligned.
Employment contracts are part of the game. Overemployment is part of the metagame :-)
Then you would be paying through the nose and lawyering up. I know exactly of one such case only, though. I live in EU, and heard it was resolved by mediation but expensive for the party who breached it.
I heard about a few more cases where someone was caught illegally subcontracting. These also tend to be much cleaner.
A different evasion tactic could be getting paid in crypto.