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POLICY: NEPOTISM Policy #16
CREATION DATE: September 2015
REVISION DATE: February 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 2018
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Jack and Jill Children’s Center welcomes the opportunity to hire and retain qualified team
members who are related to one another by blood or marriage. However, since such
relationships sometimes can create conflicts in the workplace, it is the policy of Jack and Jill
Children’s Center that:

1. Any team member of Jack and Jill Children’s Center who has or acquires a familial
relationship (as defined below) with another team member shall not have any direct or
indirect administrative or operational authority over the other person. This prohibition
means not only that a person cannot supervise a family member but also that the family
member cannot be in that person's chain of command.
2. A team member of the Center cannot use his/her authority or position to benefit or to
disadvantage another team member in a familial relationship. Although all such
potential misuses of authority cannot be listed here, examples include a team member
signing an evaluation for a family member or signing/approving a check payable to a
family member.
3. Team members are required to notify the company’s Human Resources Department of
(a) any existing familial relationships; (b) any familial relationships that are created
among team members (for example, by the marriage of two team members); and (c) the
potential employment of a family member.
4. Jack and Jill Children’s Center will refuse to hire a job applicant who is in a familial
relationship with a current team member if the applicant would be in a supervisory or
subordinate position to the existing team member. Jack and Jill Children’s Center team
members who marry one another during their employment will be allowed to remain
with the company unless they are in a superior-subordinate relationship and there is no
open position to which one of them may be transferred.
5. “Familial relationship” within the meaning of this policy means two team members (or
a team member and a job applicant) in the relationship of: husband, wife, mother,
father, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, grandfather,
grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, step-parents, step-children, In-laws, or
person residing in the same household.

In addition, no person shall hold a position while he/she or a member of their immediate
family serves on a board or a committee of the Center if that board or committee has
authority to order personnel actions affecting his or her position.