Anti-Nepotism

The employment of relatives in the same area of an organization may cause serious conflicts and problems with favouritism and employee morale. In addition to claims of partiality in treatment at work, personal conflicts from outside the work environment can be carried into day-to-day working relationships.

Relatives of persons employed by the School may be hired only if they will not be working directly for or supervising a relative. School employees cannot be transferred into such a reporting relationship.

If the relative relationship is established after employment, the individuals concerned will decide who is to be transferred or resigned. If that decision is not made within 30 calendar days, management will decide who will be reassigned, transferred, or terminated.

In other cases where a conflict or the potential for conflict arises, even if there is no supervisory relationship involved, the parties may be separated by reassignment or terminated from employment.

No person shall participate in the consideration of any application for employment or promotion which involves the possible selection of a relative (as that term is defined herein) of such person.

For the purposes of this policy, relatives are defined as immediate family members which includes; spouses, parents, children, brothers, and sisters. This policy also applies to individuals, and their relatives and children, who are not legally related but who reside with an employee or Board member. (For example, common law relationships, foster care guardianships, etc.)