I just like to be devil’s advocate. Can you tell?

Never underestimate how much pilots will scheme. With the abundance of reservists on the grid right now, it’s almost guaranteed that you can arrange your schedule in a way that you won’t be used. So you still get guarantee and you’re free to make more money elsewhere or start working on an early escape plan.

Is it unethical? Yes. But I don’t doubt there are pilots trying to work a contingency plan in these ominous times. October is shaping up to be very unpleasant.

With the wildly liberalized commute policy I think many more reservists will get used

No, not looking to tattle on anybody, it's just we've never seen this before. We don't want to hire, or recommend someone for hire, if that would violate or interfere with an existing contract which only gets them in hot water.

While off-duty cops can moonlight as security guards, etc., this is the first time we've seen active pilots, still on their company's payroll, are seeking other work at the same time.

We've called the couple of airlines and they would not discuss it unless we were calling for a verification of employment of a specific employee. We declined to make that disclosure.

I get the position you're in, and sorry, I wasn't saying YOU were trying to tattle...moreover that asking the pilot group here is essentially asking US to tattle on some of our brothers and sisters that might be just trying to seek better employment.

But I understand you need to know this.

then explain that situation. I have delt with that exact scenario as the person doing the hiring. It wasn’t an issue. The applicant did not hide anything and explained the situation. Ended up being a great employee.

Different situation here. Several applicants did not initially disclose their current, and active, employment to us. When we found out through the standard background checks, these applicants gave us the lines in my initial post.
I have no doubt they would be great employees.
Our concern is interfering with their current contracts, agreements, union, GOM's, and whatever internal policies enacted because of COVID-19.
So, notwithstanding the fact we felt initially deceived, before we do anything, lest we get sued for some bizarre employment tort, we wanted to find out what the policy(ies) are, and whether moonlighting employment was permitted in the current environment.

I don’t think alienation of affection is a thing in employment law .... but ask your lawyer

If they work at PSA and don’t have the Chief pilots approval they are violating company policy and the collective bargaining agreement. I don’t believe you or your company would have any liability in the matter but I’m not a lawyer. I think the worst case would be your new hire would be fired by PSA if they figured it out.

They don’t want you to contact PSA because they most likely don’t have the chiefs approval.

Not sure if you are only concerned about PSA guys. But just as a data point, Envoy LOA explicitly allows outside flying.

Thanks very much for the clarification, as that is what we believed re: PSA's policy/union agreement.

We're not so much worried about our legal liability, but don't want a bad reputation in this business.