Stop That Revolving Door: Analysis of the Appropriate Application of the "Cooling-Off' Period Beyond Senior Government Employees

Authors

Cecilia Wang

Abstract

The cooling-off period-a period of one or two years in which a former public sector employee is prohibited from representing matters involving or appearing before his former agency of employmentexists as a means of regulating immediate departures from public to private sector law enforcement. While normally only applicable to directors or other senior officers of government, recent legal and policy changes have brought midlevel government employees under the scrutiny of lawmakers. An increase in employment liquidity has forced regulators attempting to preserve the policy's inherent purpose propose to include these midlevel employees in the application of the cooling-off period.

Disciplines

Labor and Employment Law | Law | Legal Profession

Recommended Citation

Cecilia Wang, Stop That Revolving Door: Analysis of the Appropriate Application of the "Cooling-Off' Period Beyond Senior Government Employees, 15 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol’y & Ethics J. 297 (2017).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cplpej/vol15/iss2/3