§ 1201.735-304 - Employment after leaving ACTION.

(a) Employees may negotiate for prospective employment with non-Government organizations only when they have no duties as ACTION employees which could affect that organization's interest, or after they have disqualified themselves, on the written permission of their supervisor, from such duties.

(b) For 1 year after leaving ACTION, no regular or special employee may serve pursuant to a personal or nonpersonal services contract or accept employment with an ACTION grantee or contractor for a position in which he or she would be working in any activity supported in whole or in part by ACTION funds received under an ACTION program which was within the boundaries of the employee's official responsibility or in which he or she participated personally while employed at ACTION.

(c) If, within 1 year after leaving ACTION, an individual accepts employment in violation of this rule, ACTION will disallow the costs allocated under the grant or contract for that position. In addition, a letter describing the violation will be placed in the employee's personnel file.