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Re: Finally! Grant Approved for Caltrain-corruption. or corruption????
Author: mook
Date: 05-23-2017 - 18:16
The details can make a lawyer slobber with joy, but at the state, for non-political folk, the basic post-employment rules are:
* For one year after leaving, you can't work on anything from the agency you left (except as a retired irritant).
* For two years after leaving, you can't work on anything you worked on at the agency (except as a retired irritant).
* Forever, you can't work on any contract that you were a decision maker or state contract manager for.
As a practical matter, most ordinary state contracts last 3-4 years, so unless you walk down the street after retirement/other separation and go to work for the consultant you're unlikely to be in a position to violate the "forever" prohibition, and most consultants are smart enough to keep you far away from those jobs. Not sure what the enforcement mechanism is, but at minimum it probably includes cancelling the contract(s) that you shouldn't have billed to.
HSR might be a special case. I don't know.
That said, I ran into several consultants during my state time who had hired some former director or other chief muckety-muck, who would then come in during proposal presentations and proceed to lecture us staff on how things should work. Of course, we were working under the current set of rules, which usually differed to some degree from what the former high poobahs remembered, so those parts of the presentation usually allowed brief naps. I suspect the high-end types have a short useful life with consultants unless they can prove their ability to produce sales once they've exhausted their list of people in the former agency. Oh, and their allowable charges to the project are usually very limited - what information they can provide doesn't require a lot of time unless they are actually (which they seldom are) the project manager.
* For one year after leaving, you can't work on anything from the agency you left (except as a retired irritant).
* For two years after leaving, you can't work on anything you worked on at the agency (except as a retired irritant).
* Forever, you can't work on any contract that you were a decision maker or state contract manager for.
As a practical matter, most ordinary state contracts last 3-4 years, so unless you walk down the street after retirement/other separation and go to work for the consultant you're unlikely to be in a position to violate the "forever" prohibition, and most consultants are smart enough to keep you far away from those jobs. Not sure what the enforcement mechanism is, but at minimum it probably includes cancelling the contract(s) that you shouldn't have billed to.
HSR might be a special case. I don't know.
That said, I ran into several consultants during my state time who had hired some former director or other chief muckety-muck, who would then come in during proposal presentations and proceed to lecture us staff on how things should work. Of course, we were working under the current set of rules, which usually differed to some degree from what the former high poobahs remembered, so those parts of the presentation usually allowed brief naps. I suspect the high-end types have a short useful life with consultants unless they can prove their ability to produce sales once they've exhausted their list of people in the former agency. Oh, and their allowable charges to the project are usually very limited - what information they can provide doesn't require a lot of time unless they are actually (which they seldom are) the project manager.
