27 Miss. Code. R. 120-5.15
All employees must be available for and devote their full attention to their assigned duties and responsibilities during scheduled working hours. Further, employees having emergency response responsibilities must be reasonably available during non-scheduled hours. Each employee must ensure that his or her off-the-job activities do not adversely affect job performance with and are not contrary to the interests of the State. For this reason, the following guidelines and rules are established for all employees:
* Employment with the State will be the employee's primary job responsibility and obligation; any other employment will be deemed secondary.
* An employee should not seek or accept outside or secondary employment that may negatively impact or affect the employee's punctual and consistent attendance, ability to satisfactorily and efficiently perform his or her duties or that creates a conflict of interest.
* The demands or requirements of outside or secondary employment may not be considered as excusable reasons for absences, tardiness, poor performance or other areas of concern from a personnel perspective.
* Prior to seeking or accepting outside employment, full-time regular employees must discuss a secondary job with management to determine whether or not the job is considered a "conflict of interest" as previously defined herein.
Outside employment refers to a job or task performed for which any form of compensation is received. This includes the receipt of a benefit as opposed to monetary compensation; for example, performing a service and receiving goods for the task performed instead of receiving a salary or wage. Outside employment does not refer to being a member of a reserve component of the military.
Employees engaging in any outside employment must submit a request for approval to the individual or individuals designated by the agency prior to employment. This request must be completed if an outside activity exists at the time the employee is hired by the State; when an outside employment activity previously approved is being discontinued or the nature or scope of the activity is being changed; or, when the employee plans to enter into any outside employment. If the outside employment constitutes a conflict of interest, detracts from the employee's responsibilities, or has an appearance of a conflict of interest, the request will be denied.
27 Miss. Code. R. 120-5.15