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contracts prevent employers from abusing employees, dismissing them unfairly etc, and ensure that if you do get terminated, you will get notice or pay in lieu, so you know you'll have breathing space to find another job.

how do you imagine a contact prevents you from working when and where you want? Flexitime is more common in the UK, despite contracts. you are no more or no lessfree to have more than one employer than you are here. If your first employer doesn't like you 'moonlighting" here, they can just fire yiou. In UK, they canonly fire you if it's written in your contract.

edited to note this was written before your last post, so is not so relevant now