I ran into a situation where I fell under a museum's conflict of interest
policy becasue I was living with a staff member (not married). However,
their benefits policy excluded me from health insurance since I was living
with them and not married!! Please get all of your policies in harmony.
Marc
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Svadlenak" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Nepotism Policy
> Wesley:
> Despite having a nepotism policy in place that defined immediate family
> members (which I thought was quite clear) I ran into a problem years ago
> when a staff member hired her son's 17 year old girlfriend (who happened
> to
> be the mother of the staff member's grandchild). The staff member argued
> that the young woman was not family--since her son and the girlfriend were
> not legally married, despite the fact that they all lived under the same
> roof with the museum employee. You might want to include "immediate
> family
> members, their partners and their children", but sadly, I fear that anyone
> who doesn't "get it", and hires their family member (cousins or whatever
> relation) is not someone you want on your staff long term.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Jean Svadlenak
> Consultant to Museums
> Kansas City, Missouri
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Wesley Creel
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Nepotism Policy
>
>
> Good Afternoon All,
> 1.) Does your museum have a Board approved....or Governing Authority
> approved policy, regarding nepotism in the workplace? Our museum has a
> nepotism policy that refers to immediate family, but it does NOT define
> what
> is
> an immediate family.
> 2.) As you can well imagine, there is always someone who may ask the
> question, "What is the museum's definition of immediate family?" Before we
> go
> off and re-invent the wheel.......I would appreciate receiving a
> definition
> of "immediate family" that has been approved by a board or governing
> authority.
> 3.) Our attorney has suggested that we use the following:
> "Parents, brothers, sisters, children, relatives supported financially,
> father-in-
> law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law." This definition is
> incorporated in the National Association of Securities Dealers Rules of
> Fair
> Practice on abuses of hot issues through such practices as Freeriding and
> Withholding. The ruling prohibits the sale of such securities to members
> of
> a
> broker-dealer's own family or to persons buying and selling for
> institutional
> accounts and their families. This definition looks good....BUT.....
> 4.) It should be noted that the definition in paragraph #3 would allow
> the
> hiring of 1st cousins.........Being a "Southern Boy" I can tell you that
> no
> Southerners were present when the National Association of Securities
> Dealers
> wrote that definition......because in a Southern kinship system cousins
> are "almost" like brothers and sisters......Being located in the heart of
> the Mid-
> South, you can appreciate why we are taking care in writing this
> definition.
> Thanks for your time and consideration and....
> Have a wonderful weekend!
> Wesley
> Wesley S. Creel
> Administrator of Programs
> Pink Palace Family of Museums
> Memphis, TN
> www.memphismuseums.org
> office 901.320.6370
>
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