Section 1400.5025  Negotiations for Future Employment

a)         No person employed in or on a continual contractual relationship with the Treasurer's office may participate in contract negotiations on behalf of the Treasurer's office with any firm, partnership, association, or corporation with whom that person has a contract for future employment or is negotiating concerning possible future employment.

b)         An individual who performs services under a contract and who meets the requirements of an "employee" or "contractual employee" as opposed to an "independent contractor" is in a "continual contractual relationship" from the effective date of the contract until the time  the contract is terminated.

c)         "Independent contractors", as opposed to  "employees" or "contractual employees", are in a "continual contractual relationship" if the contract term is indefinite, is automatically renewed, is renewable at the individual's option, is renewable unless the Treasurer's office must act to terminate, or has a definite term of at least three months.