March – April 2020 ISSN: 0193-4120 Page No. 25446- 25453 25446 Published by: The Mattingley Publishing Co., Inc. An Embirical Investigation of Moonlighting Practices and Its Implications S.Kumaresh 1 , Dr.A.Bhooma Devi 2 1 Research Scholar ,Faculty of Management Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research,Chennai 2 Associate Professor,Faculty of Management Sciences,Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research,Chennai 1 s.kumaresh.raghavan@gmail.com, 2 devi@sri.ramachandra.edu.in Article Info Volume 83 Page Number: 25446- 25453 Publication Issue: March - April 2020 Article History Article Received: 24 July 2019 Revised: 12 September 2019 Accepted: 15 February 2020 Publication: 30April 2020 Abstract Human Resource Management (HRM) is experiencing an alter and the development of new strategies to handle the employees successfully. The most significant benefit an employee gets from a job is the financial reward or remuneration. For a variety of reasons workers sometimes take up two positions or a company along with the current job which is known as Moonlighting. Nonetheless, from the perspective of both workers as well as employers it does suffer from certain drawbacks. Through constant moonlighting, the part-time job never becomes the predominant occupation while the employee has an intention to change professions in the case of transitory moonlighting. This paper discusses in detail about roadmap of moonlighting and the background of moonlighting in various sectors along with its issues. Keywords; Moonlighting, Job Mobility, Freelancing, Human Resource Development, Total Quality Management I. INTRODUCTION Moonlighting takes on a second job, away from your main income stream. The custom is claimed to be common. In the "good old days" when 90 % of the workers were farmers, the first task was about everything anyone could handle growing with the sun and the chickens, and being ready to call it a day when they were.Then came technology and industrialisation with savings and money. A man could make a better living for five days a week, working 8 hours, than six 10 or 12-hour days had traditionally enjoyed.This gave him more time with his family every day at home, and a day once in a while for fishing, golfing, or other leisure activities. Of course, there were some, especially young people and forceful and those with heavy obligations in the family, who preferred further income to even more convenience.If that meant more money, they were ready to work more than 40 hours a week, and such positions were available in a wide range of industries. The recession of the 1930's, with its strong inflation, helped popularize the false idea that the number of job openings was small and that among available employees should be shared in these jobs. The legislation acknowledged the 40-hour week, allowing employers to pay regular wages one-and - a-half times overtime hours. It, of course, has been an unnecessary cost of doing business and a deterrent to the laborer seeking additional employment and profits. While studies have enu merged the short-day and week blessings, the main idea was to spread the research. The argument is that this com- pulsory spread-the-work concept is now being integrated into our economy; in most