By the Light of the Moon: Interfacing Halakhah and Employee Relations

Recent government statistics suggest that over 7.2 million American workers currently hold more than one regular job. Known variously as "moonlighting," supplementary employment or multiple job-holding, it includes members of the work-force who hold primary jobs, generally full-time, while supplementing their incomes with full or part-time employment, after-hours. Though they constitute only about one in twenty workers, the presence of these multiple job-holders has consistently increased over the past two decades, both in numbers and proportion. For example, in 1975 only 4.7% of all workers held more than one job. However, a special survey conducted by the United States Department of Labor indicated that, by 1989, the rate had risen to 6.2%. Significantly, the percentage of female workers who engaged in moonlighting in 1975 was only 2.9%. By 1989, that figure more than doubled to 5.9%. ' The data reflect several socioeconomic factors. Almost half of