Oh, fer cryin' out loud.  You have no conflict of interest unless you are
planning to start up a brand new government agency across the street that
will compete with the one where you now work as a peer counselor.  Sheesh.

You must follow the rules of your work when you work.  If they have a policy
preventing you as a peer counselor from handing out a resource sheet listing
yourself as a PPLC (even though this is NOT a conflict of interest, on its
face) then you are stuck with that rule.

If they have a rule that says you are not to be paid for speaking
engagements given during your regular work day (after all -- this is public
health -- education is supposed to be freely available to all) then you are
stuck with that rule.

If they have a rule saying you can't use your day job to line up consults in
your moonlighting post, then you are stuck with that rule (which also, by
the way, is a good rule from an ethics standpoint ....)

But you sure as heck are not under their thumb and their rules when you
leave your day job, and go to work developing your second career (or your
moonlighting job) as a PPLCer.  You can charge for consults as a PPLCer, you
can seek honoraria for speaking gigs, you can open a retail part to your
business, you can be an independent contractor hiring out your IBCLC
expertise to others with short term need (the hospital and other PPLCers).
You are an allied health care provider, fer cryin' out loud again.

If your current boss is telling you you can do none of these things On Your
Own Time, ask him to explain why you should not march right over to your
small business lawyer, who has helped you to set up your private practice,
and ask her to file a lawsuit for "restraint of trade" and "interference
with business relations."  Sheesh again.

Run, do not walk, to your nearest book outlet and get Linda Smith's fabulous
book "The Lactation Consultant in Private Practice."  I disclaim that I
wrote the legal chapter but I will not get one red cent from the sale, and
YOU will have The Bible to tell you when, how and if to open a private
practice.  If you are working in a breastfeeding-promoting place, that is
not even willing to recognize by title or remunerative means the significant
achievement you have made to become IBCLC from peer counselor background, it
may be time to find a new day job ....

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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