§ 1506.205 - Outside employment.

(a) An employee shall not engage in outside employment or other outside activity which is incompatible with the full and proper discharge of the duties and responsibilities of his or her Government employment. Incompatible activities include but are not limited to:

(1) Acceptance of a fee, compensation, gift, payment of expense, or any other thing of monetary value in circumstances in which acceptance may result in, or create the appearance of, conflicts of interest; or

(2) Outside employment which tends to impair his or her mental or physical capacity to perform Government duties and responsibilities in an acceptable manner.

(b) An employee shall not receive any salary or anything of monetary value from a private source as compensation for his services to the Government (18 U.S.C. 209).

(c) Employees are encouraged to engage in teaching, lecturing, and writing which is not prohibited by law, Executive Order, OGE regulations, or this part. However, an employee shall not, either for or without compensation, engage in teaching, lecturing, or writing which depends on information obtained as a result of his or her Government employment, except when that information has been made available to the general public or will be made available on request. An employee also shall not accept an honorarium for any consultation, writing, speech, lecture, or appearance, the subject matter of which draws substantially on official data or ideas which have not become part of the body of public information.

(d) The Federal Inspector may not have, in any calendar year, outside earned income which is in excess of fifteen percent of his Government compensation (Pub. L. 95-521, as amended, section 210).

(e) Any employee engaged in outside paid employment on a substantially regular basis shall notify his or her supervisor, who in turn will evaluate the continuation of such outside employment relative to paragraph (a) of this section.