New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Puc - Public Utilities Commission
Chapter Puc 2100 - AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS RULES
Part Puc 2105 - SEPARATION
Section Puc 2105.06 - Employee Transfers

(a) A utility shall track all employee transfers between the utility and its competitive energy affiliates;

(b) The utility shall report the information required to be tracked under (a) above as part of the compliance plan required by Puc 2106;

(c) No transfer between a utility and its competitive energy affiliates shall take place if the total number of such transfers during the preceding one year period exceeds 10% of the number of utility employees in the utility at the time of such transfer;

(d) Once a utility employee becomes an employee of a competitive energy affiliate, the employee shall not be re-employed by the utility for a period of one year;

(e) The requirement in (d) above shall not apply if the competitive energy affiliate to which the utility employee transfers ceases to transact business in New Hampshire during the one year period;

(f) In the event that an employee is re-employed by the utility, such employee shall not be transferred to, reassigned to, or otherwise employed by a competitive energy affiliate for a period of 2 years;

(g) An employee who is hired by the competitive energy affiliate and becomes a utility employee shall not be transferred to, reassigned to, or otherwise employed by a competitive energy affiliate for a period of 2 years;

(h) The requirements in (d) through (g) above shall not apply to any utility employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement;

(i) No utility employee hired by or shared with a competitive energy affiliate shall remove or otherwise provide information to the competitive energy affiliate which the competitive energy affiliate would otherwise be precluded from obtaining pursuant to these rules;

(j) Utility employees transferring from the utility to a competitive energy affiliate and shared utility employees shall not use customer information and distribution system information in a discriminatory fashion to the benefit of the competitive energy affiliate or to the detriment of non-affiliated energy competitors;

(k) A utility shall not make temporary or intermittent assignments or rotations of its employees to its competitive energy affiliates in a manner designed to circumvent the prohibitions concerning the provision of information contained in (i) through (j) above; and

(l) A transferring or shared employee shall sign a statement, which the utility shall file as part of the compliance plan required by Puc 2106, attesting that the employee is aware of and understands the restrictions set forth in these rules and the attendant consequences of violations of those provisions.