My husband and I work for the same university in different departments but his department is over the museum.  We live in a small town so it isn't uncommon that families work at the same place.  We just can't be in direct supervisor relationships.

 

 

>>> Julia Moore <[log in to unmask]> 8/3/2007 2:45 PM >>>
When I worked in a university museum we were subject to the university's
nepotism policy, which said that people who were related by blood or
marriage (to any degree) could not work in the same department without
explicit University permission, and could not be in a direct
supervisor-supervisee relationship under any circumstances.

Of course in a small town this may not be practical.

Julia Muney Moore
Public Art Administrator
Blackburn Architects, Indianapolis, IN
(317) 875-5500 x219
  



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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:04 PM
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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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