Question

An employee has come to you with a request to take on a part-time job. The employee would be working for Price Waterhouse as a contract employee during tax season. The employee has assured you that she will not work more than 20 hours a week, primarily on weekends. Price-Waterhouse is one of the five accounting firms that has put a bid in to do the auditing for G-BioSport.

Be Reasonable: Explore the Options

Basic Liberties
Choose three options to analyze. You will analyze multiple options to help ensure that you choose a reasonable option to implement.
After brainstorming with the leadership team, you have identified four options:

Allow the accountant to work as long as a confidentiality agreement is signed.

Allow the accountant to work as long as the company does not choose PW for the audit work.

Do not allow the accountant to work for PW or any other accounting auditing company but do allow other part-time work.

Do not change the policy and allow the employee to work with no strings attached.

In this step, identify the basic liberties to which each constituent is entitled. Compare the options and discuss which option (assuming a clean process) best meets the basic liberties requirement. Discuss why the other options do not meet the requirement for the basic liberties as well.

Answer 1

I believe that the best option in this case is to allow the employee to work worth no strings attached because I believe that an employee possess the basic liberties to work part time for an organization and it is better if the employee has a no strings relation with the part time organization because the employee should not take this opportunity to disclose business secrets of any of the organizations and it is better if the employee maintain such secrets and possess a no strings attached attitude and that will allow the employee to work in the organization without any major liability in the professional contract and once the assignment is over the individual can terminate the contract with PwC at will.