Legal Question in Business Law in California

Unless your contract with the school as a PE teacher includes a term which forbids you to engage in consulting, then you should not have a problem running your own personal training business. There may be other factors that need to be considered. To discuss, I encourage you to contact our firm. Our contact information is on our website at www.higagipsonllp.com.

Whether you are working as an employee or independent contractor as a trainer should not be relevant. What should be relevant are any provisions in your employment/union agreement agreement that relate to this issue. Absent same, the issue will become whether your trainer work will cause the performance of your school job description to deteriorate to the point that disciplinary action is taken against you, including possibly termination.

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