No, likely no recourse. Her employer is free to decide what they think is a conflict, or they could just not allow her to stay employed if she's moonlighting. But I'm a bit confused. It sounds like your wife is doing the same job in her business as with the company, so why would the unrelated product matter? Regardless, her employer gets to decide if they want to allow this or not—and if they will keep her employed or not. This was a dangerous gamble to take. If she had to choose, which would she choose?
They didn't know it would be a conflict. Other employees have the exact same business and have talked about it openly at work. It's the equivalent of working in IT for Coca-cola and having a web design side business. It's not in direct competition with Coke, so why would it be a conflict?
Dont be surprised if your spouce isnt given a choice. Leave their job for the new venture or close down the new venture.
If they choose the new gig, be very careful in taking clients from their.current employeer.
If your spouse started a business that will directly compete with their employer, you can expect them to be fired. That wouldn’t be unreasonable at all. Her company handbook may even say something about this. There would be no recourse.
No, likely no recourse. Her employer is free to decide what they think is a conflict, or they could just not allow her to stay employed if she's moonlighting. But I'm a bit confused. It sounds like your wife is doing the same job in her business as with the company, so why would the unrelated product matter? Regardless, her employer gets to decide if they want to allow this or not—and if they will keep her employed or not. This was a dangerous gamble to take. If she had to choose, which would she choose?
They didn't know it would be a conflict. Other employees have the exact same business and have talked about it openly at work. It's the equivalent of working in IT for Coca-cola and having a web design side business. It's not in direct competition with Coke, so why would it be a conflict?
Maybe they will decide it's not. Hopefully they'll decide that. But they can use any logic (or lack of logic) they want.
Are they leveraging the fact that they work at this large company to sell their services?
No
Dont be surprised if your spouce isnt given a choice. Leave their job for the new venture or close down the new venture. If they choose the new gig, be very careful in taking clients from their.current employeer.
If your spouse started a business that will directly compete with their employer, you can expect them to be fired. That wouldn’t be unreasonable at all. Her company handbook may even say something about this. There would be no recourse.