Employment Of Members Of The Same Family Or Household

(effective 1/1/07)

Relatives are defined as the employee's spouse, domestic partner, siblings, parents, children, step-children, and persons related by marriage.

Relatives of present employees may be hired by the University only if the individuals concerned do not work in a direct supervisory relationship, and the employment does not pose difficulties for supervision, security, safety, or morale. Present employees who marry, or who become related by marriage, are permitted to continue employment with the University only if they do not work in a direct supervisory relationship with one another, or otherwise pose difficulties for supervision, security, safety or morale.

If employees who marry, or who become related by marriage, or who engage in a long-term personal relationship, do work in a direct supervisory relationship with one another, the supervisor, in consultation with Human Resources, may reassign the affected employee to insure there is no direct supervisory relationship.

Relatives of employees are eligible, as anyone else, to apply for all open and posted positions within the University and are considered for those positions based upon their own qualifications and not their familial relationships to other employees. Relatives are not hired for positions where there is a direct or close reporting relationship among the relatives.