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> Of course it makes considerable sense for companies to hire retired government insiders to help them with strategy and/or lobbying.

> Of course it makes considerable sense for companies to hire retired government insiders to help them with strategy and/or lobbying. There is no way to prove that there was any wrong doing while the person was a government employee. There are also no conflict of interest guidelines that can apply since the person is no longer a government employee. Considering there sometimes are in the tech industry clauses in contract that prevent an employee from working in another company active in the same field for X years, could such a clause be applied to government employees ? To prevent that kind of abuse. Could that legally be done (in Canada, eg) and would that be `fair' ?

Posted by johnchristopher on Jul 28, 2015, 6:46 AM

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> Of course it makes considerable sense for companies to hire retired government insiders to help them with strategy and/or lobbying.

johnchristopherJul 28, 2015, 6:46 AM

> Of course it makes considerable sense for companies to hire retired government insiders to help them with strategy and/or lobbying. There is no way to prove that there was any wrong doing while the person was a government employee. There are also no conflict of interest guidelines that can apply since the person is no longer a government employee. Considering there sometimes are in the tech industry clauses in contract that prevent an employee from working in another company active in the same field for X years, could such a clause be applied to government employees ? To prevent that kind of abuse. Could that legally be done (in Canada, eg) and would that be `fair' ?

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