I’m a pharmacist in the U.K. , I work three full days a week at the branch that I manage.
Recently I enquired to the superintendents that I am in interested in being a Locum , not necessarily within the company , but with others or independents.
They came back to me and said that it’s a ‘conflict of interest’ ( I don’t understand how??) , and said whilst I am employed with them I can not work anywhere else.
I just simply can’t understand how they can dictate what I do in my free days. I am contracted to work these three days with them and nothing else. Are they just allowed to refuse without any proper reason??