Alaska Employment Law

The Ethics AG in the Alaska Department of Law, Julia Bockmon, has opined that the Executive Ethics Act applies to a state employee who sought employment with an Alaskan muicipality.  Bockmon notes that “the issue of the bar [on related employment] is most often raised with respect to employment by a private entity,” but concludes that it applies as well to post-state employment with a municipality.

In a opinion directed to the Ethics Supervisor of the Department of Natural Resources, Bockmon states:

In March 2008, you forwarded an inquiry from a state employee who was contemplating a position with an Alaska municipality potentially involving similar tasks and assignments as the employee had in his state position. The employee asked whether the bar imposed by AS 39.52.180(a) of the Executive Branch Ethics Act applied to post-state employment with a municipality. After further review, this opinion letter confirms the advice we previously gave that the restrictions on post-state employment apply to a former state employee’s employment by a municipality.

Attorney General Opinion, File No. 661-07-0027, 2008 WL 5473609 (May 14, 2008).