Regulations concerning employees´ secondary employment.

Teachers should continuously report any subject-related secondary employment at their own initiative. Teachers who do not have any secondary employment should confirm this.

As a teacher, you are requested to report information regarding your eventual secondary employment, alternatively report information that you do not have any secondary employment. Secondary employment is virtually any activity an employee engages in outside the scope of employment that is not related to the employee’s private life. Example of such activities are other employment, operation in own business or business owned by third party, Board of Director assignments or nonprofit assignments. Secondary employment can be salaried or unremunerated.

Teachers at universities and higher education institutions are, according to Chapter 4, Section 15 of the Higher Education Ordinance, obliged to report secondary employment related to the employment subject area (so-called subject-related secondary employment). Subject-related secondary employment can be related to research and development as well as teaching. According to the University’s regulations concerning employees’ secondary employment teachers should continuously report secondary employment at their own initiative. A secondary employment ought to be reported well before it becomes relevant in order to give the employer the opportunity to decide whether it should be approved.

Most secondary employment are allowed. However, secondary employment can undermine confidence, impede work or constitute competition, and can therefore be prohibited by the employer. Further information can be found in the University’s regulations concerning employees’ secondary employment.

You report secondary employment in the HR system Primula on ”My page” under the link ”Secondary employment”.