Personnel - Certified and Non-Certified
Nepotism: Employment of Relatives
It is the policy of the Board of Education that individuals shall not be appointed to any full-time, part-time or temporary position which would create a supervisor/employee relationship within any one department between two individuals who are related by blood, marriage, civil union or law.
*The term "marriage" includes a same-sex marriage that is legally recognized in Connecticut. |
In the event of marriage or civil union between employees of the District, creating a relationship which violates this policy, one of the persons affected must transfer to a location compatible with policy provisions, or in cases of refusal to transfer, be terminated from that location by the end of the school/fiscal year or within six months from the date the relationship was established, whichever is the greater period.
The degrees of relationship included in the above restrictions are as follows:
By Blood: Parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin.
By Marriage: Husband, wife, stepparent, stepchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, half-sister, half-brother, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece.
By Law: Guardianship relationships, adoptive parent/child relationships, partner in a civil union, same-sex marriage.
In the appointment and selection of new employees, the District shall adhere to this policy. All current supervisor/employee relationships established prior to the adoption of this policy will not be affected by this policy so long as they remain in present assignments.
(cf. 9270 - Conflict of Interest)
Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes
7-479 Conflicts of Interest
46b-38nn Equality of benefits, protections and responsibilities (civil unions)
46b-38oo applicability of statutes to civil unions and parties to a civil union.
United States v. Windsor, U.S. 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013)
Policy adopted: